Asymmetric coding of categorical spatial relations in both language and vision.

Describing certain types of spatial relationships between a pair of objects requires that the objects are assigned different ‘roles’ in the relation, e.g. ‘A is above B’ is different than ‘B is above A’. This asymmetric representation places one object in the ‘target’ or ‘figure’ role and the other...

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Main Authors: Jessica eRoth, Steven eFranconeri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00464/full