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Carr, Jon W.; Smith, Kenny; Cornish, Hannah; Kirby, Simon – Cognitive Science, 2017
Language maps signals onto meanings through the use of two distinct types of structure. First, the space of meanings is discretized into categories that are shared by all users of the language. Second, the signals employed by the language are compositional: The meaning of the whole is a function of its parts and the way in which those parts are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Maps, Classification, Language Research
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Cutica, Ilaria; Bucciarelli, Monica – Cognitive Science, 2008
This study concerned the role of gestures that accompany discourse in deep learning processes. We assumed that co-speech gestures favor the construction of a complete mental representation of the discourse content, and we tested the predictions that a discourse accompanied by gestures, as compared with a discourse not accompanied by gestures,…
Descriptors: Prediction, Learning Processes, Inferences, Nonverbal Communication
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Osman, Magda – Cognitive Science, 2008
This study discusses findings that replicate and extend the original work of Burns and Vollmeyer (2002), which showed that performance in problem-solving tasks was more accurate when people were engaged in a non-specific goal than in a specific goal. The main innovation here was to examine the goal specificity effect under both observation-based…
Descriptors: Observation, Problem Solving, Goal Orientation, Learning Processes