TY - GEN
T1 - Both Symbolic and Embodied Representations Contribute to Spatial Language Processing; Evidence from Younger and Older Adults
AU - Markostamou, Ioanna
AU - Coventry, Kenny
AU - Fox, Chris
AU - McInnes, Lynn
N1 - Funding Information:
This project is supported by the Marie Curie actions of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 316748.
Funding Information:
This project is supported by the Marie Curie actions of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 316748.
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Building on earlier neuropsychological work, we adopted a novel individual differences approach to examine the relationship between spatial language and a wide range of both verbal and nonverbal abilities. Three new measures were developed for the assessment of spatial language processing: spatial naming, spatial verbal memory, and verbal comprehension in spatial perspective taking. Results from a sample of young adults revealed significant correlations between performance on the spatial language tasks and performance on both the analogous (non-spatial) verbal measures as well as on the (non-verbal) visual-spatial measures. Visual-spatial abilities, however, were more predictive of spatial language processing than verbal abilities. Furthermore, results from a sample of older adults revealed impairments in visual-spatial tasks and on spatial verbal memory. The results support dual process accounts of meaning, and provide further evidence of the close connection between the language of space and non-linguistic visual-spatial cognition.
AB - Building on earlier neuropsychological work, we adopted a novel individual differences approach to examine the relationship between spatial language and a wide range of both verbal and nonverbal abilities. Three new measures were developed for the assessment of spatial language processing: spatial naming, spatial verbal memory, and verbal comprehension in spatial perspective taking. Results from a sample of young adults revealed significant correlations between performance on the spatial language tasks and performance on both the analogous (non-spatial) verbal measures as well as on the (non-verbal) visual-spatial measures. Visual-spatial abilities, however, were more predictive of spatial language processing than verbal abilities. Furthermore, results from a sample of older adults revealed impairments in visual-spatial tasks and on spatial verbal memory. The results support dual process accounts of meaning, and provide further evidence of the close connection between the language of space and non-linguistic visual-spatial cognition.
KW - Ageing
KW - Embodied Cognition
KW - Spatial Language
KW - Visual-Spatial Abilities
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85135703950
T3 - Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015
SP - 1518
EP - 1523
BT - Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015
A2 - Noelle, David C.
A2 - Dale, Rick
A2 - Warlaumont, Anne
A2 - Yoshimi, Jeff
A2 - Matlock, Teenie
A2 - Jennings, Carolyn D.
A2 - Maglio, Paul P.
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015
Y2 - 23 July 2015 through 25 July 2015
ER -