@inproceedings{fc6451a27e7e41488ff22cbdb9618914,
title = "Both Symbolic and Embodied Representations Contribute to Spatial Language Processing; Evidence from Younger and Older Adults",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Ageing, Embodied Cognition, Spatial Language, Visual-Spatial Abilities",
author = "Ioanna Markostamou and Kenny Coventry and Chris Fox and Lynn McInnes",
note = "Funding Information: This project is supported by the Marie Curie actions of the European Union{\textquoteright}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. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015.All rights reserved.; 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015 ; Conference date: 23-07-2015 Through 25-07-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "1518--1523",
editor = "Noelle, \{David C.\} and Rick Dale and Anne Warlaumont and Jeff Yoshimi and Teenie Matlock and Jennings, \{Carolyn D.\} and Maglio, \{Paul P.\}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
}