Representing Direction in Language and Space

Emile van der Zee is senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. His publications include Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information (2000, together with prof. Urpo Nikanne), also published by Oxford University Press.Jon Slack is the head of Psychology at the University of Lincoln. Hecompleted his PhD at Manchester University in 1976 and has held teachingposts at the Open University and the University of Kent. His mainresearch interests are in neural network modeling and representational theory.

• 1. The representation of direction in language and space ; 2. Spatial language and spatial cognition: the roles of axial and vector ; 3. Vectors across spatial domains: from place to size, orientation, shape and parts ; 4. Vector grammar, places, and the functional role of the spatial prepositions in English ; 5. Constraints on motion event coding: vectors or path shapes? ; 6. Defining spatial relations: reconciling axis and vector representations ; 7. Places: points, paths, and portions ; 8. Ontological problems for the semantics of spatial expressions in natural language ; 9. Change of orientation ; 10. Memory for locations relative to objects: axes and the categorization of regions ; 11. How Finnish postpositions see the axis system ; 12. Directions from shape: how spatial features determine reference axis categorization ; 13. Spatial prepositions, spatial templates, and 'semantic' versus 'pragmatic' visual representations