Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

As adults, we draw upon our ample knowledge about the world to support such vital
cognitive feats as using language, reasoning, retrieving knowledge relevant to our current …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

What aspects of word meaning are important in early word learning and lexico-semantic
network development? Adult lexico-semantic systems flexibly encode multiple types of …

The present study examined how children spontaneously represent facial cues associated
with emotion. 106 three‐to six‐year‐old children (48 male, 58 female; 9.4% Asian, 84.0 …

Concepts (ie lexicalised classes of real or fictitious entities) play a central role in many
human intellectual activities, including planning, thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and …

The organization of our knowledge about the world into an interconnected network of
concepts linked by relations profoundly impacts many facets of cognition, including attention …

Abstract Knowledge integration is a crucial part of learning as concepts are built over time
and modality. In mathematics, rational numbers are a particularly difficult concept that …

Measuring the similarity of stimuli is of great interest to a variety of social scientists. Spatial
arrangement by dragging and drop** “more similar” targets closer together on the …

Memory for the time associated with past events is critical for our understanding of episodic
memory and its development. Relatively little is known about the factors that influence …