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Gu, Yan; Zheng, Yeqiu; Swerts, Marc – Cognitive Science, 2019
The "temporal-focus hypothesis" claims that whether people conceptualize the past or the future as in front of them depends on their cultural attitudes toward time; such conceptualizations can be independent from the space-time metaphors expressed through language. In this paper, we study how Chinese people conceptualize time on the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Asians, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
Childers, Jane B.; Paik, Jae H.; Flores, Melissa; Lai, Gabrielle; Dolan, Megan – Cognitive Science, 2017
Extending new verbs is important in becoming a productive speaker of a language. Prior results show children have difficulty extending verbs when they have seen events with varied agents. This study further examines the impact of variability on verb learning and asks whether variability interacts with event complexity or differs by language.…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Research, Learning Processes, Toddlers
Koolen, Ruud; Goudbeek, Martijn; Krahmer, Emiel – Cognitive Science, 2013
This study investigates to what extent the amount of variation in a visual scene causes speakers to mention the attribute color in their definite target descriptions, focusing on scenes in which this attribute is not needed for identification of the target. The results of our three experiments show that speakers are more likely to redundantly…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Color, Identification, Cognitive Processes
Shimojima, Atsushi; Katagiri, Yasuhiro – Cognitive Science, 2013
Semantic studies on diagrammatic notations (Barwise & Etchemendy,; Shimojima,; Stenning & Lemon, ) have revealed that the "non-deductive," "emergent," or "perceptual" effects of diagrams (Chandrasekaran, Kurup, Banerjee, Josephson, & Winkler,; Kulpa,; Larkin & Simon,; Lindsay, ) are all rooted in the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Spatial Ability, Visual Aids, Inferences
Klein, Esther; Klein, Colin – Cognitive Science, 2012
In their "The Prevalence of Mind-Body Dualism in Early China," Slingerland and Chudek use a statistical analysis of the early Chinese corpus to argue for Weak Folk Dualism (WFD). We raise three methodological objections to their analysis. First, the change over time that they find is largely driven by genre. Second, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Psychological Patterns
Wen, Wen; Ishikawa, Toru; Sato, Takao – Cognitive Science, 2013
This study examined how different components of working memory are involved in the acquisition of egocentric and allocentric survey knowledge by people with a good and poor sense of direction (SOD). We employed a dual-task method and asked participants to learn routes from videos with verbal, visual, and spatial interference tasks and without any…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Cognitive Processes, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability
Nyamsuren, Enkhbold; Taatgen, Niels A. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Complex problem solving is often an integration of perceptual processing and deliberate planning. But what balances these two processes, and how do novices differ from experts? We investigate the interplay between these two in the game of SET. This article investigates how people combine bottom-up visual processes and top-down planning to succeed…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements, Regression (Statistics)
van Maanen, Leendert; van Rijn, Hedderik; Taatgen, Niels – Cognitive Science, 2012
This article discusses how sequential sampling models can be integrated in a cognitive architecture. The new theory Retrieval by Accumulating Evidence in an Architecture (RACE/A) combines the level of detail typically provided by sequential sampling models with the level of task complexity typically provided by cognitive architectures. We will use…
Descriptors: Sampling, Cognitive Processes, Long Term Memory, Short Term Memory
Meyer, Meredith; Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Gelman, Susan A.; Stilwell, Sarah M. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Psychological essentialism is the belief that some internal, unseen essence or force determines the common outward appearances and behaviors of category members. We investigated whether reasoning about transplants of bodily elements showed evidence of essentialist thinking. Both Americans and Indians endorsed the possibility of transplants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Donors, Philosophy
Meilinger, Tobias; Knauff, Markus; Bulthoff, Heinrich H. – Cognitive Science, 2008
This study examines the working memory systems involved in human wayfinding. In the learning phase, 24 participants learned two routes in a novel photorealistic virtual environment displayed on a 220 degrees screen while they were disrupted by a visual, a spatial, a verbal, or--in a control group--no secondary task. In the following wayfinding…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Short Term Memory, Virtual Classrooms, Spatial Ability
Astuti, Rita; Harris, Paul L. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Across two studies, a wide age range of participants was interviewed about the nature of death. All participants were living in rural Madagascar in a community where ancestral beliefs and practices are widespread. In Study 1, children (8-17 years) and adults (19-71 years) were asked whether bodily and mental processes continue after death. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Rural Areas, Death
Hattori, Masasi; Oaksford, Mike – Cognitive Science, 2007
In this article, 41 models of covariation detection from 2 x 2 contingency tables were evaluated against past data in the literature and against data from new experiments. A new model was also included based on a limiting case of the normative phi-coefficient under an extreme rarity assumption, which has been shown to be an important factor in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Responses, Computer Simulation, Heuristics