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| Title |
Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures
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| Published in |
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, December 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s41235-016-0024-5 |
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| Authors |
Kensy Cooperrider, Dedre Gentner, Susan Goldin-Meadow |
| Abstract |
How do people think about complex phenomena like the behavior of ecosystems? Here we hypothesize that people reason about such relational systems in part by creating spatial analogies, and we explore this possibility by examining spontaneous gestures. In two studies, participants read a written lesson describing positive and negative feedback systems and then explained the differences between them. Though the lesson was highly abstract and people were not instructed to gesture, people produced spatial gestures in abundance during their explanations. These gestures used space to represent simple abstract relations (e.g., increase) and sometimes more complex relational structures (e.g., negative feedback). Moreover, over the course of their explanations, participants' gestures often cohered into larger analogical models of relational structure. Importantly, the spatial ideas evident in the hands were largely unaccompanied by spatial words. Gesture thus suggests that spatial analogies are pervasive in complex relational reasoning, even when language does not. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Mexico | 1 | 13% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 50% |
| Scientists | 4 | 50% |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 61 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 25% |
| Researcher | 5 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 4 | 7% |
| Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 20% |
| Unknown | 16 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 14 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 15% |
| Linguistics | 5 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 10 | 16% |
| Unknown | 16 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
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