Using spatial terms to select an object

Carlson, Lauri; Logan, Gordon D.

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“…A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t Levels of orientation for the LO were: 'vertical', 'upside down', 'pointing at' (the RO) and 'pointing away' (from the RO). These orientations were selected to be consistent with orientations used in Experiment 2 and with previous experiments that manipulated the orientation of the RO (e.g., Carlson-Radvansky & Irwin, 1994;Carlson & Logan, 2001). As in Experiment 2 in the pointing conditions, the axis of the LO was pointing exactly towards, or away from, the centre-of-mass of the RO; the distance between LO and RO was manipulated across all the orientations.…”

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Spatial language and converseness

Burigo

Coventry

Cangelosi

et al. 2016

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Typical spatial language sentences consist of describing the location of an object (the located object) in relation to another object (the reference object) as in "The book is above the vase". While it has been suggested that the properties of the located object (the book) are not translated into language because they are irrelevant when exchanging location information, it has been shown that the orientation of the located object affects the production and comprehension of spatial descriptions. In line with the claim that spatial language apprehension involves inferences about relations that hold between objects it has been suggested that during spatial language apprehension people use the orientation of the located object to evaluate whether the logical property of converseness (e.g., if "the book is above the vase" is true, then also "the vase is below the book" must be true) holds across the objects' spatial relation. In three experiments using sentence acceptability rating tasks we tested this hypothesis and demonstrated that when converseness is violated people's acceptability ratings of a scene's description are reduced indicating that people do take into account geometric properties of the located object and use it to infer logical spatial relations.

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Spatial language and converseness

Burigo

Coventry

Cangelosi

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…left) and topological terms (e.g. near) [10][11][12]. We found that the effect of a distractor object depends on certain geometric factors in the visual presentation.…”

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The Role of Attention in Understanding Spatial Expressions under the Distractor Condition

Kobayashi¹,

Terai²,

Tokunaga³

2008

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science

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To develop a computational model of understanding spatial expressions, various factors should be taken into account. We have been exploring the relations between the goodness-of-fit of spatial terms and various geometric factors such as the object's size, the distance between objects and the observers' viewpoint. Although the dual-object relation between the located and reference objects can be handled with relatively simple models, introducing a distractor object requires a model considering further factors to explain relations, such as attention to the objects. Based on our experiment using Japanese topological and projective terms, this paper proposes a computational model to estimate the goodness-of-fit of spatial terms which incorporates an attention model for a distractor object. The proposed model was evaluated by using our experimental data.

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“…In the area of mental representations, the elicited verbal description should optimally refl ect the speakers' conceptualization of a perceived scene or event. For example, participants could be shown a picture and asked a question about it that triggers a description (e.g., Carlson & Logan, 2001;Henderson & Ferreira, 2004 ;Holsanova, 2008). Notably, the precise formulation of the question and other discourse factors systematically aff ect the participants' description.…”

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Cognitive Discourse Analysis: accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data

Tenbrink

2014

Lang Cognition

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This paper offers the first general introduction to CODA (Cognitive Discourse Analysis), a methodology for analyzing verbal protocols and other types of unconstrained language use, as a resource for researchers interested in mental representations and high-level cognitive processes. CODA can be used to investigate verbalizations of perceived scenes and events, spatio-temporal concepts, complex cognitive processes such as problem-solving and cognitive strategies and heuristics, and other concepts that are accessible for verbalization. CODA builds on and extends relevant established methodologies such as cognitive linguistic perspectives, verbal protocol analysis in cognitive psychology and interdisciplinary content analysis, linguistic discourse analysis, and psycholinguistic experimentation.

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Using spatial terms to select an object

Cited by 56 publications

References 30 publications

Spatial language and converseness

Spatial language and converseness

The Role of Attention in Understanding Spatial Expressions under the Distractor Condition

Cognitive Discourse Analysis: accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data

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