What have labels ever done for us? The linguistic shortcut in conceptual processing

L Connell - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
How does language affect cognition? Is it important that most of our concepts come with
linguistic labels, such as car or number? The statistical distributions of how such labels co …

Effect size matters: The role of language statistics and perceptual simulation in conceptual processing

MM Louwerse, S Hutchinson, R Tillman… - Language, Cognition …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The cognitive science literature increasingly demonstrates that perceptual representations
are activated during conceptual processing. Such findings suggest that the debate on …

[HTML][HTML] A body map beyond perceptual experience

D Gatti, F Günther, L Rinaldi - Journal of Cognition, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The human body is perhaps the most ubiquitous and salient visual stimulus that we
encounter in our daily lives. Given the prevalence of images of human bodies in natural …

Decomposing geographical judgments into spatial, temporal and linguistic components

D Gatti, G Anceresi, M Marelli, T Vecchi… - Psychological …, 2024 - Springer
When mentally exploring maps representing large-scale environments (eg, countries or
continents), humans are assumed to mainly rely on spatial information derived from direct …

[PDF][PDF] Language matters: The influence of language and language use on cognition

R Tillman - 2016 - research.tilburguniversity.edu
When I started my trajectory toward a Ph. D., I didn't know what to expect. I just knew that I
had a deep passion for psychology and cognitive science, and I wanted to go as far as I …