{"pk":28280,"title":"Spatial categories in language and thought: Evidence for categorical perception atthe cardinal axes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic spatial categories has been characterized in terms of two contrastingpositions. One position suggests, naturally enough, a close correspondence between the two sets of categories. A secondposition suggests a dissociation, in which the boundaries between nonlinguistic categories function as the prototypes forlinguistic categories. The latter account predicts categorical perception (CP)enhanced discrimination at category bound-ariesat the horizontal and vertical axes, yet this prediction has not been tested directly. We tested it in three experiments.In perceptual and memory tasks, cross-axis locations were discriminated better than within-axis locations at both axes,indicating CP. These results suggest that the axes indeed serve as nonlinguistic category boundaries, consistent with thedissociation account. However, findings from a supplemental naming task revealed that these boundaries are also markedlinguistically, implying some correspondence between linguistic and nonlinguistic spatial categories and a potential rec-onciliation of the competing accounts.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jb2p23h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Carey","name_suffix":"","institution":"Colorado College","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kirvin-Quamme","name_suffix":"","institution":"Colorado College","department":""},{"first_name":"Nora","middle_name":"","last_name":"Newcombe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Holmes","name_suffix":"","institution":"Colorado College","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/28280/galley/17939/download/"}]}