{"pk":28268,"title":"Spatial language and visual attention: A new approach to test linguistic relativity.","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r19g5dr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Florian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goller","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Vienna","department":""},{"first_name":"Soonja","middle_name":"","last_name":"Choi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Vienna","department":""},{"first_name":"Ulrich","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ansorge","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Vienna","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28268/galley/17927/download/"}]}