title: New visuospatial associations by training verbospatial mappings in the first language.
abstract: We investigated whether verbospatial and visuospatial information share a common representation. Wedemonstrate that when the associations from spatial words to spatial responses are altered, so that the word LEFT becomes associated with a right response and the word RIGHT with a left response, the associations from the spatial locations left and right to the spatial responses also change. This effect was only observed for first-language spatial words (Dutch) and not for second-language spatial words (French), and it did not increase when these languages were combined. The findings argue for shared spatial representations f ordifferent types of spatialinput.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. wim.notebaert@ugent.be
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Notebaert
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: De Moor
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gevers
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hartsuiker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001244:Association; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D013028:Space Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception