Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Much prior research has investigated how humans understand time using body-based
contrasts like front/back and left/right. It has recently come to light, however, that some …

Gesture is recognized as part of and integral to cognition. The value of gesture for learning is
contingent on how it gathers meaning against the ground of other relevant resources in the …

Spatial cognition is central to human behavior, but the way we conceptualize space varies
over development and across cultures. When remembering the locations or movements of …

We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students'
documented difficulties with adding and subtracting single-digit positive and negative …

The world's languages draw on different reference frames to encode spatial relationships
between people, objects or places. We address how subtle differences in reference frame …

Spatial cognition is central to human behavior, but the way people conceptualize space
varies within and across groups for unknown reasons. Here, we found that adults from an …

This study investigates how integrated egocentric and environmental reference frames
influence direction determination and cardinal direction judgments in L1 speakers of …

Spatial cognition is fundamental to human behavior, but people differ in how they remember
spatial relations, variably using body-based (egocentric) and environment-based …

Humans make sense of space in a variety of ways. We can locate the world relative to our
bodies, for instance, and thus adopt an'egocentric'frame of reference for space. Or we can …