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Gentner, Dedre; Ozyurek, Asli; Gurcanli, Ozge; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognition, 2013
Does spatial language influence how people think about space? To address this question, we observed children who did not know a conventional language, and tested their performance on nonlinguistic spatial tasks. We studied deaf children living in Istanbul whose hearing losses prevented them from acquiring speech and whose hearing parents had not…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Linguistic Input, Deafness, Children
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Caparos, Serge; Ahmed, Lubna; Bremner, Andrew J.; de Fockert, Jan W.; Linnell, Karina J.; Davidoff, Jules – Cognition, 2012
There is substantial evidence that populations in the Western world exhibit a local bias compared to East Asian populations that is widely ascribed to a difference between individualistic and collectivist societies. However, we report that traditional Himba--a remote interdependent society--exhibit a strong local bias compared to both Japanese and…
Descriptors: Urban Environment, Cultural Differences, Individualism, Task Analysis
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Cormier, Kearsy; Schembri, Adam; Vinson, David; Orfanidou, Eleni – Cognition, 2012
Age of acquisition (AoA) effects have been used to support the notion of a critical period for first language acquisition. In this study, we examine AoA effects in deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users via a grammaticality judgment task. When English reading performance and nonverbal IQ are factored out, results show that accuracy of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Grammar, Sign Language, Second Language Learning
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Haun, Daniel B. M.; Rapold, Christian J.; Janzen, Gabriele; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognition, 2011
The present paper explores cross-cultural variation in spatial cognition by comparing spatial reconstruction tasks by Dutch and Namibian elementary school children. These two communities differ in the way they predominantly express spatial relations in language. Four experiments investigate cognitive strategy preferences across different levels of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Usage, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences
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Bialystok, Ellen; Viswanathan, Mythili – Cognition, 2009
The present study used a behavioral version of an anti-saccade task, called the "faces task", developed by [Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I. M., & Ryan, J. (2006). Executive control in a modified anti-saccade task: Effects of aging and bilingualism. "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition," 32,…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Experimental Psychology, Bilingualism
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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Dering, Benjamin; Wiggett, Alison; Kuipers, Jan-Rouke; Thierry, Guillaume – Cognition, 2010
The validity of the linguistic relativity principle continues to stimulate vigorous debate and research. The debate has recently shifted from the behavioural investigation arena to a more biologically grounded field, in which tangible physiological evidence for language effects on perception can be obtained. Using brain potentials in a colour…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistics, Brain, Cultural Context
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Guo, Taomei; Peng, Danling; Liu, Ying – Cognition, 2005
The Stroop paradigm was used to examine the role of phonological activation in semantic access and its development in reading Chinese characters. Subjects (age 7-23 years) of different reading ability were asked to name the display color of Chinese characters. The characters were displayed in four different colors: red, yellow, blue and green.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reading Ability, Chinese, Phonology