How does language impact cognition and perception? A growing number of studies show
that language, and specifically the practice of labeling, can exert extremely rapid and …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

The little voice inside our head, or inner speech, is a common everyday experience. It plays
a central role in human consciousness at the interplay of language and thought. An …

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 …

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 …

A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …

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 …

The emergence of language—a productive and combinatorial system of communication—
has been hailed as one of the major transitions in evolution. By enabling symbolic culture …

What are the consequences of calling things by their names? Six experiments investigated
how classifying familiar objects with basic-level names (chairs, tables, and lamps) affected …

Semantic knowledge (or semantic memory) is knowledge we have about the world. For
example, we know that knives are typically sharp, made of metal, and that they are tools …