Abstract
Subjects read narratives describing directions of objects around an upright observer who was periodically reoriented, and given a description of the objects in different positions around his body. Rt. patterns showed that there were two stages in identifying which object was currently located beyond the observer’s front, back, right, and left. The first stage identifying the referred direction of probing noun and the pattern of process time is front < back < right = left. The second stage is putting the attention to the goal direction to identify the goal object and the pattern of process time is focus < opposition to focus < left to focus = right to focus. The whole Rt. pattern supports a two-stage-hypothesis proposed by the authors.
| Keywords: | narrative; object-identification; direction; attention |
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