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The Influence of Language on Spatial Reasoning: Reading Habits Modulate the Formulation of Conclusions and the Integration of Premises
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In: ISSN: 1664-1078 ; Frontiers in Psychology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03505193 ; Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers, 2021, 12, ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2021.654266⟩ (2021)
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International audience ; In the present study, we explore how reading habits (e.g., reading from left to right in French or reading from right to left in Arabic) influence the scanning and the construction of mental models in spatial reasoning. For instance, when participants are given a problem like A is to the left of B; B is to the left of C, what is the relation between A and C? They are assumed to construct the model: A B C. If reading habits influence the scanning process, then readers of French should inspect models from left to right, whereas readers of Arabic should inspect them from right to left. The prediction following this analysis is that readers of French should be more inclined to produce “left” conclusions (i.e., A is to the left of C), whereas readers of Arabic should be more inclined to produce “right” conclusions (i.e., C is to the right of A). Furthermore, one may expect that readers of French show a greater ease in constructing models following a left-to-right direction than models following a right-to-left direction, whereas an opposite pattern might be expected for readers of Arabic. We tested these predictions in two experiments involving French and Yemeni participants. Experiment 1 investigated the formulation of conclusions from spatial premises, and Experiment 2, which was based on non-linguistic stimuli, examined the time required to construct mental models from left to right and from right to left. Our results show clear differences between the two groups. As expected, the French sample showed a strong left-to-right bias, but the Yemeni sample did not show the reverse bias. Results are discussed in terms of cultural influences and universal mechanisms.
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[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology; mental models; mental scanning; reading habits; relational reasoning; spatial reasoning
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03505193
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.654266
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The Influence of Language on Spatial Reasoning: Reading Habits Modulate the Formulation of Conclusions and the Integration of Premises
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
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In: ISSN: 0360-0025 ; EISSN: 1573-2762 ; Sex Roles ; https://hal-cnrs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03039222 ; Sex Roles, Springer Verlag, 2020, 83 (7-8), pp.453 - 473. ⟨10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x⟩ (2020)
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Là, c’est pas le questionnement habituel question-réponse
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In: Journées d’étude du projet DECLICS ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03188038 ; Journées d’étude du projet DECLICS, 2019, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2019)
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Context in Generalized Conversational Implicatures: the case of some
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In: ISSN: 1664-1078 ; Frontiers in Psychology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01582067 ; Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers, 2016, ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00381⟩ (2016)
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Scalar Implicatures: The Psychological Reality of Scales
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In: EISSN: 1664-1078 ; Frontiers in Psychology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02951229 ; Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers, 2016, 7, ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01500⟩ (2016)
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Scalar Implicatures: The psychological reality of scales
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In: EISSN: 1664-1078 ; Frontiers in Psychology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01374001 ; Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers, 2016, ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01500⟩ (2016)
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L’impact de l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde sur les capacités pragmatiques : le cas des implicatures scalaires
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In: Connaissances et usages en langue seconde ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01659678 ; Connaissances et usages en langue seconde, Jun 2016, Nantes, France. ⟨10.1051/shsconf/20173800005⟩ ; http://www.couls2016.univ-nantes.fr/ (2016)
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Context in Generalized Conversational Implicatures: The Case of Some
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Do Easterners and Westerners treat contradiction differently?
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In: ISSN: 1567-7095 ; EISSN: 1568-5373 ; Journal of Cognition and Culture ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01400642 ; Journal of Cognition and Culture, Brill Academic Publishers, 2015 (2015)
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Neural Interaction between Logical Reasoning and Pragmatic Processing in Narrative Discourse
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In: ISSN: 0898-929X ; EISSN: 1530-8898 ; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01878742 ; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2015, 27 (4), pp.692 - 704. ⟨10.1162/jocn_a_00744⟩ (2015)
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Weak and strong triggers
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01073507 ; 2013 (2013)
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What's behind a P600? Integration operations during irony processing.
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In: ISSN: 1932-6203 ; EISSN: 1932-6203 ; PLoS ONE ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00875135 ; PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2013, 8 (6), pp.e66839. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0066839⟩ (2013)
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What’s behind a P600? Integration Operations during Irony Processing
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Neural evidence that utterance-processing entails mentalizing: the case of irony.
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In: ISSN: 1053-8119 ; EISSN: 1095-9572 ; NeuroImage ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00864241 ; NeuroImage, Elsevier, 2012, 63 (1), pp.25-39. ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.046⟩ (2012)
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