Cognition materializes in an interpersonal space. The emergence of complex behaviors
requires the coordination of actions among individuals according to a shared set of rules …

Everyday concepts of duration, of sequence, and of past, present, and future are
fundamental to how humans make sense of experience. In culture after culture, converging …

The third edition of this popular, innovative and engaging textbook introduces students to the
various methods of modern social science, explaining how these have emerged, their …

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied
experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In …

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 …

Languages differ widely in the ways they encode time. I test the hypothesis that the
languages that grammatically associate the future and the present, foster future-oriented …

This chapter introduces readers to a basic model and framework with which to understand
how human cultures influence, and are influenced by, psychological processes and …

Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Several cognitive accounts of human communication argue for a language‐independent,
prelinguistic basis of human communication and language. The current study provides …

Time is a fundamental domain of experience. In this paper we ask whether aspects of
language and culture affect how people think about this domain. Specifically, we consider …