Color is a pervasive feature of our psychological experience, having a role in many aspects
of human mind and behavior such as basic vision, scene perception, object recognition …

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

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including
metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It …

The Whorf hypothesis holds that we view the world filtered through the semantic categories
of our native language. Over the years, consensus has oscillated between embrace and …

The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often
referred to as' linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For …

Categorical perception (CP) is likely the single finding from speech perception with the
biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known …

Models of speech perception are in general agreement with respect to the major cortical
regions involved, but lack precision with regard to localization and lateralization of …

Speech perception requires the effortless mapping from smooth, seemingly continuous
changes in sound features into discrete perceptual units, a conversion exemplified in the …

Una obra revolucionaria, la historia de la evolución humana y animal más importante desde
El origen de las especies de Darwin, por el más insigne de sus sucesores.¿ De dónde …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …