title: Perceived physical experiences and mental representations.
abstract: In a recent paper, Stamps (2011a) reported findings on how two environmental properties, namely, boundary height and horizontal area within a boundary, influence impressions of enclosure. He found that the boundary height had a greater influence on impressions of enclosure than the horizontal area within a boundary. Enclosure correlated at 0.85 with boundary height and at -0.60 with horizontal area. This note suggests that environmental features are related not only to a concrete experiential variable but also to mental representations of abstract concepts.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hongyue
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012858:Size Perception; D013028:Space Perception