“The mind is locked in a body that, at any time, occupies a specific place and faces a specific direction. This undeniable fact forms part of the basis for embodied cognition” (Tversky & Hard, 2009). In theories concerning spatial cognition, this premise is often mentioned in support of the primacy of the egocentric perspective over the exocentric perspective both in terms of one’s own body (e.g. Golledge, 1992; Howard & Templeton, 1966; Levelt, 1989; Shelton & McNamara, 1997) and another person’s body (e.g. Mainwaring, Tversky, Ohgishi & Schiano, 2003; Tversky & Hard, 2009; Shober, 1995). Further experimental evidence has shown the importance of allocentric representations of space in scene recognition, locomotion and reorientation in space (e.g. Holmes & Sholl, 2006; Klatzky, 1998; Mou, McNamara, Rump, & Xiao, 2006; Mou, Fan, McNamara, & Owen, 2008; Mou, McNamara, Valiquette & Rump, 2004; Tversky, Lee, Mainwaring, 1999). Therefore, the axes related to front-back (sagittal), left-right (coronal) and above-below (gravitational) form a salient bodily based system of coordinates which coexists with the north-south, east-west, up-down system of coordinates in the environment around us (Fig. 1, top right diagram). The structure of both these systems intrinsically involves a feature that is not traditionally taken into much account in models of spatial cognition, that is, the fact that the phenomenological geometry of space is oppositional. This chapter will concentrate on that feature.

Spatial Contraries and Mirrors.

Savardi U.
2018-01-01

Abstract

“The mind is locked in a body that, at any time, occupies a specific place and faces a specific direction. This undeniable fact forms part of the basis for embodied cognition” (Tversky & Hard, 2009). In theories concerning spatial cognition, this premise is often mentioned in support of the primacy of the egocentric perspective over the exocentric perspective both in terms of one’s own body (e.g. Golledge, 1992; Howard & Templeton, 1966; Levelt, 1989; Shelton & McNamara, 1997) and another person’s body (e.g. Mainwaring, Tversky, Ohgishi & Schiano, 2003; Tversky & Hard, 2009; Shober, 1995). Further experimental evidence has shown the importance of allocentric representations of space in scene recognition, locomotion and reorientation in space (e.g. Holmes & Sholl, 2006; Klatzky, 1998; Mou, McNamara, Rump, & Xiao, 2006; Mou, Fan, McNamara, & Owen, 2008; Mou, McNamara, Valiquette & Rump, 2004; Tversky, Lee, Mainwaring, 1999). Therefore, the axes related to front-back (sagittal), left-right (coronal) and above-below (gravitational) form a salient bodily based system of coordinates which coexists with the north-south, east-west, up-down system of coordinates in the environment around us (Fig. 1, top right diagram). The structure of both these systems intrinsically involves a feature that is not traditionally taken into much account in models of spatial cognition, that is, the fact that the phenomenological geometry of space is oppositional. This chapter will concentrate on that feature.
2018
9781107154988
spatial opposites
bipolar dimensions
mirror
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