New visuospatial associations by training verbospatial mappings in the first language.
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.
Notebaert
Wim
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Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. wim.notebaert@ugent.be
De Moor
Wendy
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Gevers
Wim
W
Hartsuiker
Robert J
RJ
D000328:Adult; D001244:Association; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D013028:Space Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception