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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 24] 2021
► pp. 67–96

Chapter 2
Visual experience of the road for safe driving

Article outline
  • 2.1Fundamental issues from behind the curtain
    • 2.1.1Institutional and funding aspects of a call for proposals
    • 2.1.2Rephrasing the question: Cooperation of knowledge domains
    • 2.1.3The perspective of cognitive psychology
    • 2.1.4Identifying categories of roads: Concepts and methods
      • 2.1.4.1From natural categories to categories for roads
      • 2.1.4.2The lexicon: From text units to road sections as stimuli
      • 2.1.4.3From reading to driving: Designing adequate procedures
  • 2.2Case studies: Re-presentations of roads for driving
    • 2.2.1Visual perception and representations for action
      • 2.2.1.1Material and stimuli set
      • 2.2.1.2Procedure
      • 2.2.1.3Participants
      • 2.2.1.4Results
        • Conclusions and further developments
    • 2.2.2Photos vs. drawings: Re-presentations of roads
      • 2.2.2.1Experiment 2A
      • 2.2.2.2Experiment 2B
    • 2.2.3Stimuli properties and participants’ previous knowledge
  • 2.3Looking backwards from 20 years distance: Dead-ends and blooming springs
    • 2.3.1Some methodological issues
    • 2.3.2Beyond Rosch: Natural vs. action-centered and situated categories
    • 2.3.3Knowledge and representations: Affordances and Umwelt
    • 2.3.4Meaning, symbolic systems, languages, and experiential knowledge
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 01 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.02dub
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