Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool

C Fernyhough, AM Borghi - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Many people report a form of internal language known as inner speech (IS). This review
examines recent growth of research interest in the phenomenon, which has broadly …

[HTML][HTML] Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture, and biology

A Majid - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing
belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support …

[HTML][HTML] Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

JM List, R Forkel, SJ Greenhill, C Rzymski, J Englisch… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
The past decades have seen substantial growth in digital data on the world's languages. At
the same time, the demand for cross-linguistic datasets has been increasing, as witnessed …

Verbal interference paradigms: A systematic review investigating the role of language in cognition

JSK Nedergaard, M Wallentin, G Lupyan - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a systematic review of the empirical literature that uses dual-task
interference methods for investigating the on-line involvement of language in various …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological meanings: A consensus paper on individual differences and contextual influences in embodied language

A Ibáñez, K Kühne, A Miklashevsky, E Monaco… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Embodied theories of cognition consider many aspects of language and other cognitive
domains as the result of sensory and motor processes. In this view, the appraisal and the …

Conceptualizing landscapes through language: The role of native language and expertise in the representation of waterbody related terms

RS Purves, P Striedl, I Kong… - Topics in Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Landscapes are essential to human life: they provide a multitude of material (food, water,
pollination) and nonmaterial (beauty, tranquility, recreation) values. Their importance is …

Expertise shapes multimodal imagery for wine

I Croijmans, LJ Speed, A Arshamian… - Cognitive Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although taste and smell seem hard to imagine, some people nevertheless report vivid
imagery in these sensory modalities. We investigate whether experts are better able to …

Children's early reading through the sense of smell: a typology of olfactory engagement

N Kucirkova, I Bruheim Jensen - Early Child Development and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated adult–child shared book reading of olfactory books that stimulate the sense
of smell through scratch-and-sniff surfaces. We observed ten adult–child dyads reading …

A Rose by Another Name? Odor Misnaming is Associated with Linguistic Properties

T Hörberg, M Kurfalı, M Larsson, E J. Laukka… - Cognitive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Naming common odors is a surprisingly difficult task: Odors are frequently misnamed. Little
is known about the linguistic properties of odor misnamings. We test whether odor …

Sniffing out meaning: Chemosensory and semantic neural network changes in sommeliers

M Carreiras, I Quiñones, HA Chen… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wine tasting is a very complex process that integrates a combination of sensation, language,
and memory. Taste and smell provide perceptual information that, together with the semantic …