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Verbs, events and spatial representations.

A Chatterjee1, M H Southwood, D Basilico

  • 1Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294-0017, USA. a_chatterjee@email.neuro.uab.edu

Neuropsychologia
|April 24, 1999
PubMed
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Language concepts are spatially represented. Participants located agents left of patients and showed left-to-right action directionality, suggesting spatial event representations beyond propositional meaning.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Language describes events with actions and spatial trajectories.
  • Previous research suggests potential spatial underpinnings for conceptual representation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether linguistic concepts of events are spatially represented.
  • To examine the spatial location of thematic roles and directionality of actions in event representation.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using drawing and sentence-picture matching tasks.
  • Verbs like 'push' and 'pull' were used to dissociate action directionality.
  • Sentence structure was controlled to isolate meaning-based spatial biases.

Main Results:

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  • Normal subjects consistently located agents to the left of patients.
  • A left-to-right directionality was observed in the representation of actions.
  • These spatial biases were not explained by language surface structure or propositional representations.

Conclusions:

  • Events possess spatial representations alongside their propositional counterparts (verbs, thematic roles).
  • Observed spatial properties may be linked to left hemisphere functional specialization.
  • Findings support a deeper integration of language, cognition, and spatial processing.