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Santiago, Julio; Ouellet, Marc; Roman, Antonio; Valenzuela, Javier – Cognitive Science, 2012
Conceptual congruency effects are biases induced by an irrelevant conceptual dimension of a task (e.g., location in vertical space) on the processing of another, relevant dimension (e.g., judging words' emotional evaluation). Such effects are a central empirical pillar for recent views about how the mind/brain represents concepts. In the present…
Descriptors: Attention, Prompting, Priming, Concept Formation
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Nunez, Rafael E.; Cornejo, Carlos – Cognitive Science, 2012
The Aymara of the Andes use absolute (cardinal) frames of reference for describing the relative position of ordinary objects. However, rather than encoding them in available absolute lexemes, they do it in lexemes that are intrinsic to the body: "nayra" ("front") and "qhipa" ("back"), denoting east and west,…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, Adults