論文

査読有り
2014年11月

Universal ontology: Attentive tracking of objects and substances across languages and over development

International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Trix Cacchione
  • ,
  • Marcello Indino
  • ,
  • Kazuo Fujita
  • ,
  • Shoji Itakura
  • ,
  • Toyomi Matsuno
  • ,
  • Simone Schaub
  • ,
  • Federica Amici

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開始ページ
481
終了ページ
486
記述言語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1177/0165025414544233
出版者・発行元
SAGE Publications

Previous research has demonstrated that adults are successful at visually tracking rigidly moving items, but experience great difficulties when tracking substance-like “pouring” items. Using a comparative approach, we investigated whether the presence/absence of the grammatical count–mass distinction influences adults and children’s ability to attentively track objects versus substances. More specifically, we aimed to explore whether the higher success at tracking rigid over substance-like items appears universally or whether speakers of classifier languages (like Japanese, not marking the object–substance distinction) are advantaged at tracking substances as compared to speakers of non-classifier languages (like Swiss German, marking the object–substance distinction). Our results supported the idea that language has no effect on low-level cognitive processes such as the attentive visual processing of objects and substances. We concluded arguing that the tendency to prioritize objects is universal and independent of specific characteristics of the language spoken.


リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025414544233
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000345305300001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0165025414544233
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0165025414544233
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1177/0165025414544233
  • ISSN : 0165-0254
  • eISSN : 1464-0651
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000345305300001

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