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The construction of spatial situation models during reading.

Yves Bestgen1, Vincent Dupont

  • 1Fonds national belge de la recherche scientifique, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. yves.bestgen@psp.ucl.ac.be

Psychological Research
|September 5, 2003
PubMed
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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Readers construct situation models from texts.
  • The spatial organization of these mental models is not well understood.
  • It is unclear if mental representations reflect spatial proximity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if readers' mental representations of text-described situations preserve spatial proximity.
  • To determine if spatial priming effects are influenced by the layout of described elements.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using a sentence-by-sentence text presentation.
  • Participants arranged items in a spatial layout based on text instructions.
  • A recognition task measured spatial priming effects based on item proximity.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 showed a larger priming effect for spatially closer items in the layout.
  • Experiment 2 replicated these findings.
  • Priming effects were better explained by categorical distance than Euclidean distance.

Conclusions:

  • Readers' mental representations of textual information appear to maintain spatial relationships.
  • The organization of mental models reflects the described spatial layout, influenced by categorical relationships.

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