We focus our review on three universal tasks of human development: relationship formation,
knowledge acquisition, and the balance between autonomy and relatedness at …

Frames of reference are coordinate systems used to compute and specify the location of
objects with respect to other objects. These have long been thought of as innate concepts …

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can
be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even …

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the
thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture …

This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and
genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which …

How do chimpanzees say,'I want to have sex with you?'By clipping a leaf or knocking on a
tree trunk? How do they eat live aggressive ants? By using a short stick with one hand or …

Li and Gleitman (Turning the tables: language and spatial reasoning. Cognition, in press)
seek to undermine a large-scale cross-cultural comparison of spatial language and …

The word cultural has modified psychology throughout its history. Cole (1990) calls cultural
psychology “a once and future discipline,” Shweder (1990, 2003) notes that cultural …

Two major theoretical approaches have dominated the quest for uniquely human cognitive
abilities: a developmentalist approach stressing the importance of environmental and social …

In The Culturally Customized Web Site, Nitish Singh and Arun Pereira focus on cultural
aspects of international website design, honing in on three objectives:* First, to present a …