Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

The time has come, perhaps, to go beyond merely acknowledging that language is a core
manifestation of the workings of the human mind and that it relates interactively to all aspects …

The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to
bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
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People make sense of objects and events around them by classifying them into identifiable
categories. The extent to which language affects this process has been the focus of a long …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

Issues related to concepts and categorization are nearly ubiquitous in psychology because
of people's natural tendency to perceive a thing as something. We have a powerful impulse …

How do humans construct their mental representations of the passage of time? The
universalist account claims that abstract concepts like time are universal across humans. In …

The purpose of the current article is to support the investigation of linguistic relativity in
second language acquisition and sketch methodological and theoretical prerequisites …

Concepts are the building blocks of thought. They are critically involved when we reason,
make inferences, and try to generalize our previous experiences to new situations. Behind …