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Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention

We report an experiment that compared two explanations for the effect of congruency between a word's on screen spatial position and its meaning. On one account, congruency is explained by the match between position and a mental simulation of meaning. Alternatively, congruency is explained by th...

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Autores principales: Pecher, Diane, Van Dantzig, Saskia, Boot, Inge, Zanolie, Kiki, Huber, David E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21833200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00030
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author Pecher, Diane
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Boot, Inge
Zanolie, Kiki
Huber, David E.
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description We report an experiment that compared two explanations for the effect of congruency between a word's on screen spatial position and its meaning. On one account, congruency is explained by the match between position and a mental simulation of meaning. Alternatively, congruency is explained by the polarity alignment principle. To distinguish between these accounts we presented the same object names (e.g., shark, helicopter) in a sky decision task or an ocean decision task, such that response polarity and typical location were disentangled. Sky decision responses were faster to words at the top of the screen compared to words at the bottom of the screen, but the reverse was found for ocean decision responses. These results are problematic for the polarity principle, and support the claim that spatial attention is directed by mental simulation of the task-relevant conceptual dimension.
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spelling pubmed-31537492011-08-10 Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention Pecher, Diane Van Dantzig, Saskia Boot, Inge Zanolie, Kiki Huber, David E. Front Psychol Psychology We report an experiment that compared two explanations for the effect of congruency between a word's on screen spatial position and its meaning. On one account, congruency is explained by the match between position and a mental simulation of meaning. Alternatively, congruency is explained by the polarity alignment principle. To distinguish between these accounts we presented the same object names (e.g., shark, helicopter) in a sky decision task or an ocean decision task, such that response polarity and typical location were disentangled. Sky decision responses were faster to words at the top of the screen compared to words at the bottom of the screen, but the reverse was found for ocean decision responses. These results are problematic for the polarity principle, and support the claim that spatial attention is directed by mental simulation of the task-relevant conceptual dimension. Frontiers Research Foundation 2010-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3153749/ /pubmed/21833200 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00030 Text en Copyright © 2010 Pecher, Van Dantzig, Boot, Zanolie and Huber. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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Pecher, Diane
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Boot, Inge
Zanolie, Kiki
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Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention
title Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention
title_full Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention
title_fullStr Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention
title_full_unstemmed Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention
title_short Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention
title_sort congruency between word position and meaning is caused by task-induced spatial attention
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21833200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00030
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