Recent research shows that speakers of most languages find smells difficult to abstract and
name. Can verbal labels enhance the human capacity to learn smell categories? Few …

This chapter aims to provide guidance for novel as well as more seasoned researchers in
understanding the fundamental characteristics, complementary strengths and uses of online …

Language interfaces with many other cognitive domains. This paper explores how
interactions at these interfaces can be studied with deep learning methods, focusing on the …

The possibility of communicating by directly transferring mental states between minds—
telepathy—has been a popular trope in science fiction for over a century. It has now has …

Speech perception can be defined as the perceptual and cognitive processes leading to the
discrimination, identification, and interpretation of speech signals. This chapter focusses on …

This chapter focuses on how dyadic agent-based communication games are used to
investigate language evolution. We start by putting communication games in historical and …

What determines whether two people represent something in a similar way? We examined
the role of verbal labels in promoting representational alignment. Across two experiments …

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences have recognised emotion as a central
component of cultural analysis, a trend that has blossomed in biblical studies and ancient …

Monomorphemic word forms have been found to influence the learning of exemplars. These
labels encode category typical features and are used to refer to specific entities. Theoretical …

Methods. 30 autistic children (3-to-9yo) were divided into two groups: same label (SL) and
distinct label (DL). Children were presented with pairs of unknown objects in three …