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    "pk": 28268,
    "title": "Spatial language and visual attention: A new approach to test linguistic relativity.",
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    "abstract": "It is debated how far-reaching effects of language on cognition are - if they exist at all. Using a visual search paradigm,we tested whether native Korean and German speakers are differentially sensitive to visual 3D-object composites thatonly the Korean, but not the German (nor the English), language semantically distinguishes as tight- versus loose-fit. Weinstructed our participants to search for a colour-defined target composite among distractors. However, targets were alsoimplicitly signalled by their tight- or loose-fit composites. Only Korean speakers picked up on this implicit target-definingcharacteristic, reflected in attention capture by target-similar composites. As these concepts are not grammticalised inthe German language, our results demonstrate that language can determine which visual features capture attention. Ourresearch introduces a novel approach because processing of the linguistically discriminated visual characteristics wasneither instructed nor necessary for the task, demonstrating a case of linguistic relativity of cognition.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Abstracts-Posters",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r19g5dr",
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        {
            "first_name": "Florian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Goller",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Vienna",
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        {
            "first_name": "Soonja",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Choi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Vienna",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ulrich",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ansorge",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Vienna",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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