Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

Traditional memory research has focused on identifying separate memory systems and
exploring different stages of memory processing. This approach has been valuable for …

How does language impact cognition and perception? A growing number of studies show
that language, and specifically the practice of labeling, can exert extremely rapid and …

Humans have a massive capacity to store detailed information in visual long-term memory.
The present studies explored the fidelity of these visual long-term memory representations …

Categorical perception (CP) is the phenomenon by which the categories possessed by an
observer influences the observers' perception. Experimentally, CP is revealed when an …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Ineffability, the degree to which percepts or concepts resist linguistic coding, is a fairly
unexplored nook of cognitive science. Although philosophical preoccupations with qualia or …

In the previous chapter, we have proposed that fluency increases with typicality and
decreases with conceptual ambiguity (postulate 11.2). When the object has been …

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the" second person" in human interaction,
the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state …

Many animals can be trained to perform novel tasks. People, too, can be trained, but
sometime in early childhood people transition from being trainable to something qualitatively …