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Shiri Lev-Ari – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Categorization is the foundation of many cognitive functions. Importantly, the categories we use to structure the world are informed by the language we speak. For example, whether we perceive dark blue, light blue, and green to be shades of one, two, or three different colors depends on whether we speak Berinmo, English, or Russian, respectively.…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classification, Computer Simulation, Community Characteristics
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Bian, Lin; Cimpian, Andrei – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Language can be used to express broad, unquantified generalizations about both categories (e.g., "Dogs bark") and individuals (e.g., "Daisy barks"). Although these two classes of statements are commonly assumed to arise from the same linguistic phenomenon--"genericity"--the literature to date has not offered a direct…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Usage, Generalization, Undergraduate Students
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García-Gámez, Ana B.; Macizo, Pedro – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
We compared 2 learning methods for the acquisition of vocabulary in a second language (L2). In addition, the use of the new L2 words was evaluated both in isolation and within sentences. In the semantic method, L2 words and pictures denoting their meanings were presented and participants learned by practicing a semantic categorization task (to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Sentences, Semantics
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Peeters, David; Runnqvist, Elin; Bertrand, Daisy; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
We examined language-switching effects in French-English bilinguals using a paradigm where pictures are always named in the same language (either French or English) within a block of trials, and on each trial, the picture is preceded by a printed word from the same language or from the other language. Participants had to either make a language…
Descriptors: French, English, Bilingualism, Pictorial Stimuli