{"pk":25634,"title":"Both Symbolic and Embodied Representations Contribute to Spatial Language\nProcessing; Evidence from Younger and Older Adults","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Building on earlier neuropsychological work, we adopted a\nnovel individual differences approach to examine the\nrelationship between spatial language and a wide range of\nboth verbal and nonverbal abilities. Three new measures were\ndeveloped for the assessment of spatial language processing:\nspatial naming, spatial verbal memory, and verbal\ncomprehension in spatial perspective taking. Results from a\nsample of young adults revealed significant correlations\nbetween performance on the spatial language tasks and\nperformance on both the analogous (non-spatial) verbal\nmeasures as well as on the (non-verbal) visual-spatial\nmeasures. Visual-spatial abilities, however, were more\npredictive of spatial language processing than verbal abilities.\nFurthermore, results from a sample of older adults revealed\nimpairments in visual-spatial tasks and on spatial verbal\nmemory. The results support dual process accounts of\nmeaning, and provide further evidence of the close connection\nbetween the language of space and non-linguistic visualspatial\ncognition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Spatial Language; Embodied Cognition; Visual-\nSpatial Abilities; Ageing"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dx2d4wn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ioanna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Markostamou","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of East Anglia","department":""},{"first_name":"Kenny","middle_name":"","last_name":"Coventry","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of East Anglia","department":""},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fox","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of East Anglia","department":""},{"first_name":"Lynn","middle_name":"","last_name":"McInnes","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northumbria University of Newcastle","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25634/galley/15258/download/"}]}