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SPATIAL METAPHOR & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-DOMAIN MAPPINGS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD INTRODUCTION STIMULI RESULTS SUMMARY METHODS This research was supported by NIH F32HD085736 and NSF SBE-16302040 References: 1. Lakoff & Johnson, (1980). Metaphors We Live By. 2. Shayan et al., (2014). Developmental Science. 3. Dolscheid et al., (2017). Proceedings of the 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Questions? contact arielstarr@berkeley.edu Spatial language is often used metaphorically to describe other domains (e.g., a long sound, a high pitch) 1 Previous work has provided conflicting findings as to whether experience with these metaphors shapes children’s cross-domain associations 2,3 We investigated 3 factors that might influence cross-domain associations: • metaphor familiarity – are children better able to match relations that are reflected in English-language metaphors? • target domain – is there an advantage for mapping between space and time compared to between space and pitch? • verbal labels – does the presence of labels facilitate cross-domain mappings? Participants 128 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds Conditions Familiar metaphors: Length-duration (long/short) Height-pitch (high/low) Unfamiliar metaphors: Size-duration (big/small) Thickness-pitch (thick/thin) Tasks Perceptual: Match between aliens and sounds Linguistic: Match between labels and aliens or sounds Space-time Task Schematics Space-pitch long vs. short high vs. low thick vs. thin 1 s 512 hz 128 hz 3 s big vs. small Which sound does this alien make? Which sound does a small alien make? Perceptual matching Linguistic matching Which alien makes a small sound? Which alien makes this sound? Children recognize spatial associations for time and pitch that are not reflected in their native language Labels facilitated mapping performance in all conditions except for pitch-thickness Spatial language may strengthen some cross-domain associations by highlighting shared labels or ordinal structure Ariel Starr & Mahesh Srinivasan UC Berkeley 50 60 70 80 3 4 5 6 Age (years) Accuracy (% correct) Accuracy by condition and match type Accuracy improves with age
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SPATIAL METAPHOR & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-DOMAIN MAPPINGS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
INTRODUCTION STIMULI
RESULTS
SUMMARY
METHODS
This research was supported by NIH F32HD085736 and NSF SBE-16302040
References:1. Lakoff & Johnson, (1980). Metaphors We Live By.2. Shayan et al., (2014). Developmental Science.3. Dolscheid et al., (2017). Proceedings of the 37th AnnualCognitive Science Society.
Questions? contact [email protected]
Spatial language is often used metaphorically to describe other domains (e.g., a long sound, a high pitch)1
Previous work has provided conflicting findings as to whether experience with thesemetaphors shapes children’s cross-domainassociations 2,3
We investigated 3 factors that might influence cross-domain associations:• metaphor familiarity – are children better able to match relations that are reflected inEnglish-language metaphors?• target domain – is there an advantage formapping between space and time compared to between space and pitch?• verbal labels – does the presence of labels facilitate cross-domain mappings?
Participants128 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds
ConditionsFamiliar metaphors:Length-duration (long/short)Height-pitch (high/low)
Unfamiliar metaphors:Size-duration (big/small)Thickness-pitch (thick/thin)
TasksPerceptual:Match between aliens and sounds
Linguistic:Match between labels and aliens or sounds
Space- t ime Task Schematics
Space-pi tch
long vs. short
high vs. low thick vs. thin
1 s
512 hz
128 hz
3 s big vs. small
Which sound does this alien make?
Which sound does a small alien make?
Perc
eptu
al m
atch
ing
Ling
uist
ic m
atch
ing
Which alien makes a small sound?
Which alien makes this sound?
Children recognize spatial associations for time andpitch that are not reflected in their native language
Labels facilitated mapping performance in all conditions except for pitch-thickness
Spatial language may strengthen some cross-domain associations by highlighting shared labels or ordinal structure
Ariel Starr & Mahesh Srinivasan UC Berkeley
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80
3 4 5 6Age (years)
Acc
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Accuracy by condition and match typeAccuracy improves with age
