Spatial language and converseness.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Sage in association with Experimental Psychology Society Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101259775 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1747-0226 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 17470218 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: 2018- : London : Sage in association with Experimental Psychology Society
      Original Publication: London : Informa Healthcare
    • Subject Terms:
      Orientation* ; Semantics* ; Space Perception*; Concept Formation/*physiology; Adolescent ; Adult ; Analysis of Variance ; Female ; Humans ; Judgment ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pattern Recognition, Visual ; Photic Stimulation ; Young Adult
    • Abstract:
      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.
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Acceptability rating task; Converseness; Inference; Spatial language; Spatial relations
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20160226 Date Completed: 20170316 Latest Revision: 20170316
    • Publication Date:
      20231215
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/17470218.2015.1124894
    • Accession Number:
      26911205