REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL FRAME OF REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF CHINA

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	REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL FRAME OF REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF CHINA
	Li, Jing; Zhang, Kan
摘要	Levinson defined spatial frame of reference systems into three types and found that people who spoke different languages all over the world had different habits in the use of these systems. Some quasi-experimental designed research in China suggested that Chinese people in various areas had different preferences for frame of reference systems in nonlinguistic spatial tasks. In this study, a newly designed and strictly controlled laboratory experiment was conducted to measure performance oil linguistic spatial tasks. Response times of two groups of participants, respectively selected from the north (10 men and 12 women; M age=24 yr., SD=4) and south (11 men and 12 women; M age 24 yr., SD=3) of China, were compared on processing of spatial terms used in different systems: absolute (e.g., cast) versus relative (e.g., right). To reduce the effect of living experience, the Northern participants with less than 4 yr. living experience in the south of China were included, and vice versa. Analysis showed that Southerners, but not Northerners, differed in response times to terms between absolute and relative systems. This finding suggests that speed of processing spatial terms differs among people who speak the uniform language Mandarin but live in geographically distinct home areas in China and use different frame of reference systems.; Levinson defined spatial frame of reference systems into three types and found that people who spoke different languages all over the world had different habits in the use of these systems. Some quasi-experimental designed research in China suggested that Chinese people in various areas had different preferences for frame of reference systems in nonlinguistic spatial tasks. In this study, a newly designed and strictly controlled laboratory experiment was conducted to measure performance oil linguistic spatial tasks. Response times of two groups of participants, respectively selected from the north (10 men and 12 women; M age=24 yr., SD=4) and south (11 men and 12 women; M age 24 yr., SD=3) of China, were compared on processing of spatial terms used in different systems: absolute (e.g., cast) versus relative (e.g., right). To reduce the effect of living experience, the Northern participants with less than 4 yr. living experience in the south of China were included, and vice versa. Analysis showed that Southerners, but not Northerners, differed in response times to terms between absolute and relative systems. This finding suggests that speed of processing spatial terms differs among people who speak the uniform language Mandarin but live in geographically distinct home areas in China and use different frame of reference systems.
关键词	landscape cognition language
学科领域	认知心理学
	2009-04-01
语种	英语
发表期刊	PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS
ISSN	0031-5125
卷号	108 期号:2 页码:587-596
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000266318200028
引用统计	被引频次：6[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/5663
专题	中国科学院心理研究所回溯数据库(1956-2010)
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Inst Psychol, State Key Lab Brain & Cognit Sci, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Jing,Zhang, Kan. REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL FRAME OF REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF CHINA[J]. PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS,2009,108(2):587-596.
APA	Li, Jing,&Zhang, Kan.(2009).REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL FRAME OF REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF CHINA.PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS,108(2),587-596.
MLA	Li, Jing,et al."REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL FRAME OF REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF CHINA".PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS 108.2(2009):587-596.