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Ferguson, Heather J.; Scheepers, Christoph; Sanford, Anthony J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
During language comprehension, information about the world is exchanged and processed. Two essential ingredients of everyday cognition that are employed during language comprehension are the ability to reason counterfactually, and the ability to understand and predict other peoples' behaviour by attributing independent mental states to them…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Linguistic Input, Eye Movements, Beliefs
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Colombo, John; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
In three experiments, the effect of additional "contextual" elements on the discrimination of the orientation of linear and curvilinear segments was investigated with four-month-old infants. Results suggest that, regarding certain stimuli and techniques of measurement, surrounding contextual segments can aid the discrimination of linear…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Infant Behavior, Infants, Spatial Ability