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 …

coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: a case study for colour Page
1 1. Introduction This target article considers how a perceptually grounded categorical repertoire …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Abstract The Grammar of Graphics, or GOG, denotes a system with seven orthogonal
components. By orthogonal, we mean there are seven graphical component sets whose …

Sensation and perception are fascinating topics, yet a major gap often separates the
richness of our perceptual experiences and the pallid, academic discussion of these …

Language involves a duality of patterning, as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand,
there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other, there are …

40 healthy, normal newborn infants were evaluated with reference to their ability to
discriminate among visual stimulus arrays consisting of 2 versus 3 or 4 versus 6 black dots …

The authors sought to replicate and extend the work of E. Rosch Heider (1972) on the Dani
with a comparable group from Papua, New Guinea, who speak Berinmo, which has 5 basic …

A small child looks at a dripping faucet and says that it is drooling." Another calls a centipede
a" comb." An older child notices the mess in his younger brother's room and says," Wow, it …