How the brain differentiates between ‘on’ and ‘above’: the neurocognition of topological and projective prepositions

This project looks at the way different types of spatial information expressed by prepositions like on and in (topological) and prepositions like above and behind (projective) are represented in the human brain. It does so by combining theories, data, and methodologies from both theoretical linguistics and (neuro)psychology, in order to gain insight into the mechanisms that are at work in the domain of spatial language and cognition, and their neural underpinnings.