A previous study by Chen demonstrates a correlation between languages that grammatically
mark future events and their speakers' propensity to save, even after controlling for …

In order to understand typical and atypical developmental trajectories it is important to
assess how strengths or weaknesses in one domain may be affecting performance in other …

To know the meaning of a sentence is to know its truth-conditions. If I say to you [“There is a
bag of potatoes in my pantry”] you may not know whether what I said is true. What you do …

The cognitive science literature increasingly demonstrates that perceptual representations
are activated during conceptual processing. Such findings suggest that the debate on …

Rethinking Thought takes readers into the minds of 30 creative thinkers to show how greatly
the experience of thought can vary. It is dedicated to anyone who has ever been told," You're …

Many common words have spatial associations (eg,“bird,”“jump”) that, counterintuitively,
hinder identification of visual targets at their associated location. For example,“bird” hinders …

Experimental semantics is an emerging area of scientific investigation in cognitive linguistics
whose aim is to investigate how people process meaning. In experimental semantics …

People speak metaphorically about abstract concepts—for instance, a person can be “full of
love” or “have a lot of love to give.” Over the past decade, research has begun to focus on …

When people talk, they gesture. The goal of this chapter is to explore the role that gesture
plays in talking and thinking. The chapter begins by situating gesture within behaviors …

Over the last two decades, accumulating work in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics
has provided evidence that language shapes thought. Conceptual metaphor theory …