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| Titel: |
Ecology, language, and performance on spatial cognitive tasks |
| Auteur: |
Mishra, Ramesh C. Dasen, Pierre R. Niraula, Shanta |
| Verschenen in: |
International journal of psychology |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 38 (2003) nr. 6 pagina's 366-383 |
| Jaar: |
2003-12 |
| Inhoud: |
The study of the orientation systems that people use in different cultures to describe the location of objects in space has drawn some interest of researchers in the fields of anthropology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology. There has been a rethinking of the “linguistic relativity hypothesis,” and some empirical studies tend to support the notion that language is the major determinant of encoding and cognitive performance on spatial tasks. This paper reports a crosscultural study carried out with 545 children aged 4 to 14 years, both schooled and unschooled, in India and Nepal. The field sites were selected taking into consideration how reference to spatial locations is organized in the language as well as in the local cultural practices. In a village near Varanansi in India, people organize spatial locations mainly with reference to cardinal directions, but in the city of Varanasi, relative references are also used, although people in both the locations speak the same language (i.e., Hindi). In a village in Nepal, on the other hand, the “uphill-downhill” geocentric frame of reference is the most compelling. We test the relationship between ecology, culture, and language, encoding of spatial information, and performance on some Piagetian spatial tasks, taking age and schooling into account. Berry's eco-cultural model is used to discuss the findings that support linguistic relativism at the group but not at the individual level. |
| Uitgever: |
Psychology Press |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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