RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Common retrieval processes in producers and comprehenders of spatial information in a noninteractive task A1 Rodrigo López, María Josefa A1 Vega Rodríguez, Manuel de A1 Padrón González, Iván A2 Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación K1 Accessibility to spatial positions K1 Production K1 Comprehension K1 Pointing gesture K1 Verbal directions AB This study explores spatial representations generated by people playing either the producer’s or thecomprehender’s role in non-interactive settings, under identical manipulations of the communicationmodality (pointing vs. verbal directions) and the type of body rotation (physical vs. imagined). Resultsshowed that these manipulations consistently modulated the accessibility of the target locations in similarways for both producers and comprehenders, indicating a common retrieval process of spatialinformation in the absence of alignment cues. In both roles, the accessibility pattern to directionsobtained when using the pointing gesture was heavily dependent on the rotation type, whereas that wasless so when using verbal directions. The results also demonstrated that the differences in the accessibilitypatterns arise at the response encoding stage (in production) and at the response decoding stage (incomprehension), suggesting a functional parallelism in the response system between the twocommunication roles. The commonality in the retrieval processes is a genuine phenomenon that shouldbe taken into account when attributing exclusively the phenomenon of spatial alignment to theinteractive efforts performed by producers and comprehenders. YR 2012 FD 2012 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35599 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35599 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 24-nov-2024