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Burns, Patrick; McCormack, Teresa; Jaroslawska, Agnieszka J.; O'Connor, Patrick A.; Caruso, Eugene M. – Cognitive Science, 2019
Human languages typically employ a variety of spatial metaphors for time (e.g., "I'm looking forward to the weekend"). The metaphorical grounding of time in space is also evident in gesture. The gestures that are performed when talking about time bolster the view that people sometimes think about regions of time as if they were locations…
Descriptors: Time, Nonverbal Communication, Children, Adolescents
Mandler, Jean M. – Cognitive Science, 2012
A theory of how concept formation begins is presented that accounts for conceptual activity in the first year of life, shows how increasing conceptual complexity comes about, and predicts the order in which new types of information accrue to the conceptual system. In a compromise between nativist and empiricist views, it offers a single…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Theories, Cognitive Processes, Attention