Strategic Spatial Anchoring as Cognitive Compensation During Word Categorization in Parkinson’s Disease: Evidence from Eye Movements
| Autor: | Abraham Novoa, Carlos del Valle Rojas, Ernesto Guerra, Mónica Véliz, Bernardo Riffo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male 050101 languages & linguistics Linguistics and Language Visual perception Eye Movements Spatial ability Population Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Cognition Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences education Association (psychology) General Psychology Language education.field_of_study 05 social sciences Eye movement Parkinson Disease Categorization Eye tracking Female Cues Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 49:823-836 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6555 0090-6905 |
| Popis: | The association between a word and typical location (e.g., cloud-up) appears to modulate healthy individuals' response times and visual attention. This study examined whether similar effects can be observed in a clinical population characterized by difficulties in both spatial representation and lexical processing. In an eye-tracking experiment, participants categorized spoken words as either up-associated or down-associated. Parkinson's disease patients exhibited a tendency to maintain their visual attention in the upper half of the screen, however, this tendency was significantly lower when participants categorized concepts as down-associated. Instead, the control group showed no preference for either the upper or lower half of the screen. We argue that Parkinson's disease patients present an over-reliance on space during word categorization as a form of cognitive compensation. Such compensation reveals that this clinical population may use spatial anchoring when categorizing words with a spatial association, even in the absence of explicit spatial cues. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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