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.Two-factor experiment supported that there were two stages in identifying which object was currentlylocated at the observer's front, back, right, and left. The first stage was identifying the directionassigned to the spatial relation by the relevant axis of the reference frame. The pattern of process timewas front < back < right = left, the second stage was identifying the object in the probed directions.The pattern of process time was focus < opposition to focus < left to focus = right to focus. The twostages were serial.

Key words: Narrative, object-identification, direction, attention