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Título del libro: Cogsci 2014 Proceedings: The Annual Meeting Of Cognitive Science Society
Título del capítulo: The Cultural Transmission of Spatial Cognition: Evidence from a Large-scale Study

Autores UNAM:
CAROLYN KRISTEN O'MEARA;
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Año de publicación:
2014
Palabras clave:

Population statistics; Regression analysis; Topography; Cultural transmission; Field studies; Large-scale studies; Linear regression analysis; Linguistic relativity; Mixed modeling; Reference frame; Referential communications; Spatial cognition; Spatial reference; Linguistics


Resumen:

We present the results of two studies of the use of spatial reference frames in speakers of 11 linguistic varieties. A series of mixed-models linear regression analyses of the responses to a referential communication task shows the significant factors in predicting frame use to be the participants' first and second-language, their literacy, the local topography and population density. This suggests that language can play an irreducible role in the transmission of practices of spatial reference and that such practices may be diffused through language contact. However, in a recall memory experiment, only speakers of varieties with an egocentric linguistic bias preferred egocentric responses. Both speakers of languages with a geocentric bias and speakers of varieties without a clear bias preferred geocentric responses. This unexpected finding is in line with a hypothetical mild innate pan-simian bias for geocentric cognition, which can be superseded by a learned egocentric bias. © 2014 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014. All rights reserved.


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