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  Spatial congruity effects reveal metaphors, not markedness

Dolscheid, S., Graver, C., & Casasanto, D. (2013). Spatial congruity effects reveal metaphors, not markedness. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013) (pp. 2213-2218). Austin,TX: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0405/index.html.

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Dolscheid, Sarah1, 2, Author           
Graver, Cleve, Author
Casasanto, Daniel3, 4, Author           
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1Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792551              
2International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_1119545              
3Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations, ou_55236              
44Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: Spatial congruity effects have often been interpreted as evidence for metaphorical thinking, but an alternative markedness-based account challenges this view. In two experiments, we directly compared metaphor and markedness explanations for spatial congruity effects, using musical pitch as a testbed. English speakers who talk about pitch in terms of spatial height were tested in speeded space-pitch compatibility tasks. To determine whether space-pitch congruency effects could be elicited by any marked spatial continuum, participants were asked to classify high- and low-frequency pitches as 'high' and 'low' or as 'front' and 'back' (both pairs of terms constitute cases of marked continuums). We found congruency effects in high/low conditions but not in front/back conditions, indicating that markedness is not sufficient to account for congruity effects (Experiment 1). A second experiment showed that congruency effects were specific to spatial words that cued a vertical schema (tall/short), and that congruity effects were not an artifact of polysemy (e.g., 'high' referring both to space and pitch). Together, these results suggest that congruency effects reveal metaphorical uses of spatial schemas, not markedness effects.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2013
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Title: the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013)
Place of Event: Berlin
Start-/End Date: 2013-07-31 - 2013-08-03

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Title: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013)
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Knauff, M., Editor
Pauen, M., Editor
Sebanz, N., Editor
Wachsmuth, I., Editor
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Publ. Info: Austin,TX : Cognitive Science Society
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