What's up? Emotion-specific activation of vertical space during language processing

Dudschig, Carolin; Vega, Irmgard de la; Kaup, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.09.015

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“…Across two studies we found that Mandarin speakers exhibit spatial mapping of concepts, as has been shown in other languages (Crawford et al, 2014;Dudschig et al, 2015;Fuhrman & Boroditsky, 2010;Maass & Russo, 2003;Ouellet et al, 2010;Santiago et al, 2007;Shaki et al, 2009). This extends previous research showing spatial mapping of time-based concepts in Mandarin (Boroditsky et al, 2011), revealing that this tendency occurs for a wide variety of abstract concepts.…”

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“…Studies that have reported on the spatial mapping of concepts have typically examined the phenomenon in languages which share some common cultural heritage. This includes those that belong to Indo-European language family, such as English (Crawford, Cohn, & Kim, 2014;Goodhew et al, 2014;Zwaan & Yaxley, 2003), German (Dudschig, De la Vega, & Kaup, 2015), and Spanish (Ouellet, Santiago, Funes, & Lupiáñez, 2010;Santiago, Lupianez, Perez, & Funes, 2007). While these studies have not made direct cross-cultural comparisons, they have shown the presence of the spatial mapping of concepts in these languages, and the pattern appears to be similar across them.…”

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The spatial mapping of concepts in English and Mandarin

Kidd

Goodhew

2019

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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English speakers have been shown to map abstract concepts in space, which occurs on both the vertical and horizontal dimensions. For example, words such as God are associated with up and right spatial locations, and words such as Satan with down and left. If the tendency to map concepts in space is a universal property of human cognition, then it is likely that such mappings may be at least partly culturally-specific, since many concepts are themselves language-specific and therefore cultural conventions. Here we investigated whether Mandarin speakers report spatial mapping of concepts, and how these mappings compare with English speakers (i.e. are words with the same meaning associated with the same spatial locations). Across two studies, results showed that both native English and Mandarin speakers reported spatial mapping of concepts, and that the distribution of mappings was highly similar for the two groups. Theoretical implications are discussed.

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The spatial mapping of concepts in English and Mandarin

Kidd

Goodhew

2019

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…In light of our results, moreover, and as already demonstrated in part by the studies of Casasanto (2009), it is possible to provide a satisfactory explanation of spatial compatibility effects between abstract or valenced stimuli and the vertical and horizontal space (Meier & Robinson, 2004;Meier et al, 2007;Meteyard et al, 2007;Dudschig, de la Vega, De Filippis & Kaup, 2014;Dudschig, de la Vega & Kaup, 2015), by re-classifying them as sub-effects of a motor compatibility with the verticality and horizontality of the movements involved in approach and avoidance responses.…”

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Nodding and shaking of the head as simulated approach and avoidance responses

Moretti

Greco

2020

Acta Psychologica

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Simulation of vertical and horizontal head movements during semantic and affective evaluation of linguistic stimuli is investigated in explicit and implicit tasks. • Motion detection software is implemented to allow participants to assess the stimuli with head movements. • Accepted stimuli were evaluated faster with vertical head movements and refused stimuli with horizontal head movements. • Semantic evaluation activated the simulation of the vertical and horizontal head movements as gestures having a communicative function "for the other", whilst affective evaluation activated their simulation as approach and avoidance responses "for the self". • The greater the affective valence of the stimulus, the more implicit and automatic the simulation. Nodding and shaking of the head as simulated approach and avoidance responses

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“…It relies on a range of psycholinguistic norms such as valency, arousal and concreteness/abstractness, which are supposedly salient features for meaning shifts and directions (Turney et al, 2011;Dudschig et al, 2015;Köper and Schulte im Walde, 2016b). We represented each sentence by providing an average affective score over all nouns, as taken from the semi-automatically created database by Köper and Schulte im Walde (2016a).…”

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Assessing Meaning Components in German Complex Verbs: A Collection of Source-Target Domains and Directionality

Walde

Köper

Springorum

2018

Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical And Computational Semantics

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This paper presents a collection to assess meaning components in German complex verbs, which frequently undergo meaning shifts. We use a novel strategy to obtain source and target domain characterisations via sentence generation rather than sentence annotation. A selection of arrows adds spatial directional information to the generated contexts. We provide a broad qualitative description of the dataset, and a series of standard classification experiments verifies the quantitative reliability of the presented resource. The setup for collecting the meaning components is applicable also to other languages, regarding complex verbs as well as other language-specific targets that involve meaning shifts.

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What's up? Emotion-specific activation of vertical space during language processing

Cited by 47 publications

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The spatial mapping of concepts in English and Mandarin

The spatial mapping of concepts in English and Mandarin

Nodding and shaking of the head as simulated approach and avoidance responses

Assessing Meaning Components in German Complex Verbs: A Collection of Source-Target Domains and Directionality

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