How to construct a linguistic landmark: language cues in the formation of hierarchical representations of space
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The formation of a hierarchical representation of space can be induced by the spatial adjacency of places marked by landmark objects from the same semantic category, as was demonstrated by a route-planning experiment (Wiener and Mallot in Spat Cogn Comput 3(4):331-358, 2003). Using the same paradigm, we tested the efficiency of linguistic cues with various hierarchical categorization principles in regional structuring. In five different conditions, places of the experimental environment were characterized (1) by landmark objects, (2) by arbitrary proper names on region level, (3) by prototypical names on region level, (4) by nouns from different semantic categories, and (5) by groups of nouns with intrinsic whole-part relation. A region effect comparable to the landmark object condition was found only for the whole-part relations, which combine spatial proximity with a shared context. A linguistic analysis revealed a correspondence to the intended regional subdivision only for the cues of this condition.
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- Authors
- Schick, W., Halfmann, M., & Mallot, H. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Schick, Wiebke
- Venue
- Cognitive Processing
- Published
- 2015-08-11
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- S1
- Pages
- 383-388
- ISSN
- 1612-4782 (ISSN-L)
- 1612-4790
- OpenAlex
- W1152457807
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Cognitive Processing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- route planning, spatial categorization, part-whole relations, semantic categories, proper names, spatial adjacency
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Choice Behavior, Cues, Female, Humans, Language, Linguistics, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Space Perception, Young Adult
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