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Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction

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Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction. / Mast, V.; Wolter, D.; Klippel, A. et al.
Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014. ed. Springer, 2014. p. 92-107.

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Mast, V, Wolter, D, Klippel, A, Wallgrun, JO, Tenbrink, T, Freksa, C (ed.), Nebel, B (ed.), Hegarty, M (ed.) & Barkowsky, T (ed.) 2014, Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction. in Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014 edn, Springer, pp. 92-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

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Mast, V., Wolter, D., Klippel, A., Wallgrun, J. O., Tenbrink, T., Freksa, C. (Ed.), Nebel, B. (Ed.), Hegarty, M. (Ed.), & Barkowsky, T. (Ed.) (2014). Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction. In Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science (2014 ed., pp. 92-107). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

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Mast V, Wolter D, Klippel A, Wallgrun JO, Tenbrink T, Freksa C, Nebel B, Hegarty M, Barkowsky T, ed. 2014. Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction. In Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014 ed. Springer. pp. 92-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

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Mast, V. et al. "Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction". Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014 udg., Springer. 2014, 92-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

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Mast V, Wolter D, Klippel A, Wallgrun JO, Tenbrink T, Freksa C, (ed.) et al. Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction. In Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014 ed. Springer. 2014. p. 92-107 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

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Mast, V. ; Wolter, D. ; Klippel, A. et al. / Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction. Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014. ed. Springer, 2014. pp. 92-107

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TY - CHAP

T1 - Boundaries and Prototypes in Categorizing Direction

AU - Mast, V.

AU - Wolter, D.

AU - Klippel, A.

AU - Wallgrun, J.O.

AU - Tenbrink, T.

A2 - Freksa, C.

A2 - Nebel, B.

A2 - Hegarty, M.

A2 - Barkowsky, T.

PY - 2014/9/15

Y1 - 2014/9/15

N2 - Projective terms such as left, right, front, back are conceptually interesting due to their flexibility of contextual usage and their central relevance to human spatial cognition. Their default acceptability areas are well known, with prototypical axes representing their most central usage and decreasing acceptability away from the axes. Previous research has shown these axes to be boundaries in certain non-linguistic tasks, indicating an inverse relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic direction concepts under specific circumstances. Given this striking mismatch, our study asks how such inverse non-linguistic concepts are represented in language, as well as how people describe their categorization. Our findings highlight two distinct grouping strategies reminiscent of theories of human categorization: prototype based or boundary based. These lead to different linguistic as well as non-linguistic patterns.

AB - Projective terms such as left, right, front, back are conceptually interesting due to their flexibility of contextual usage and their central relevance to human spatial cognition. Their default acceptability areas are well known, with prototypical axes representing their most central usage and decreasing acceptability away from the axes. Previous research has shown these axes to be boundaries in certain non-linguistic tasks, indicating an inverse relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic direction concepts under specific circumstances. Given this striking mismatch, our study asks how such inverse non-linguistic concepts are represented in language, as well as how people describe their categorization. Our findings highlight two distinct grouping strategies reminiscent of theories of human categorization: prototype based or boundary based. These lead to different linguistic as well as non-linguistic patterns.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-11215-2_7

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783319112145

SP - 92

EP - 107

BT - Spatial Cognition IX

PB - Springer

ER -