Perceptual components of situation models

Fincher‐Kiefer, Rebecca

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“…Several recent findings further suggest that language comprehension involves perceptual or motor activation (Fincher-Kiefer, 2001;Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou, 2003;Richardson & Spivey, 2002;Solomon & Barsalou, 2001;Spivey, Tyler, Richardson, & Young, 2000). Stanfield and Zwaan (2001) demonstrated that reading a sentence can prime responses to orientation-specific depictions of items described in the sentence, even though orientation was only implied in the text.…”

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Spatial representations activated during real‐time comprehension of verbs

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Previous research has shown that naïve participants display a high level of agreement when asked to choose or draw schematic representations, or image schemas, of concrete and abstract verbs [Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2001, Erlbaum, Mawhah, NJ, p. 873]. For example, participants tended to ascribe a horizontal image schema to push, and a vertical image schema to respect. This consistency in offline data is preliminary evidence that language invokes spatial forms of representation. It also provided norms that were used in the present research to investigate the activation of spatial image schemas during online language comprehension. We predicted that if comprehending a verb activates a spatial representation that is extended along a particular horizontal or vertical axis, it will affect other forms of spatial processing along that axis. Participants listened to short sentences while engaged in a visual discrimination task (Experiment 1) and a picture memory task (Experiment 2). In both cases, reaction times showed an interaction between the horizontal/vertical nature of the verb's image schema, and the horizontal/vertical position of the visual stimuli. We argue that such spatial effects of verb comprehension provide evidence for the perceptual-motor character of linguistic representations.

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“…Recent research has also identified other additional discrete spatial abilities related to wayfinding, egocentric viewpoints, or perspective taking that are likewise used to engage in spatial reasoning with the outside world (Hegarty & Waller, 2006;Kozhevnikov & Hegarty, 2001;Zacks, Mires, Tversky, & Hazeltine, 2002). These spatial abilities have been connected to performance in other complex spatial domains, such as using maps (Sanchez & Branaghan, 2009), air-traffic control (Ackerman, 1992), and even comprehension of narrative texts where readers follow the actions of a character in physical space (Bower & Morrow, 1990;Fincher-Kiefer, 2001;Fincher-Kiefer & D'Agostino, 2004;Haenggi, Kintsch, & Gernsbacher, 1995).…”

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Enhancing visuospatial performance through video game training to increase learning in visuospatial science domains

Sanchez

2011

Psychon Bull Rev

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Although previous research has demonstrated that performance on visuospatial assessments can be enhanced through relevant experience, an unaddressed question is whether such experience also produces a similar increase in target domains (such as science learning) where visuospatial abilities are directly relevant for performance. In the present study, participants completed either spatial or nonspatial training via interaction with video games and were then asked to read and learn about the geologic topic of plate tectonics. Results replicate the benefit of playing appropriate video games in enhancing visuospatial performance and demonstrate that this facilitation also manifests itself in learning science topics that are visuospatial in nature. This novel result suggests that visuospatial training not only can impact performance on measures of spatial functioning, but also can affect performance in content areas in which these abilities are utilized.

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“…Spatial situation models are usually postulated to include visuospatial representations (e.g., Fincher-Kiefer, 2001; Glenberg, 1997;Langston, Kramer, & Glenberg, 1998;Zwaan, 1999). Under certain circumstances, even a single sentence may initiate an elaborate situation model.…”

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Three Turtles in Danger: Spontaneous Construction of Causally Relevant Spatial Situation Models.

Jahn¹

2004

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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In 4 experiments, the author explored the spontaneous construction of spatial situation models during discourse comprehension by using the sentence-recognition paradigm of J. D. Bransford, J. R. Barclay, and J. J. Franks (1972). In Experiment 1, signaling causal relevance of spatial relations was a necessary precondition for replicating their original finding of spontaneously constructed spatial representations. Causal relevance was ensured in the subsequent experiments by a judgment task indirectly demanding the evaluation of described spatial relations with regard to causal relevance. Participants spontaneously constructed spatial situation models of text presented auditorily or visually. Effects of spontaneous construction were more reliable when encoding was easier. The results suggest a revised interpretation of J. D. Bransford et al.'s study and corroborate recent evidence showing that relevant spatial information in texts is reliably represented.

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Perceptual components of situation models

Cited by 80 publications

References 26 publications

Spatial representations activated during real‐time comprehension of verbs

Spatial representations activated during real‐time comprehension of verbs

Enhancing visuospatial performance through video game training to increase learning in visuospatial science domains

Three Turtles in Danger: Spontaneous Construction of Causally Relevant Spatial Situation Models.

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