How verb tense affects the construal of action: The simple past tense leads people into an abstract mindset [0.03%]
时态对事件概念方式的影响：过去式使人们的思维模式抽象化
Pilar Carrera,Dolores Muñoz,Amparo Caballero et al.
Pilar Carrera et al.
Two experiments examined the influence of verb tense on how abstractly people construe action representations. Experiment 1 revealed that written descriptions of several daily events using the simple past tense (vs. simple present tense) re...
Daniela M de la Mora,Juan M Toro
Daniela M de la Mora
The extraction of abstract rules and their generalization to new items has been proposed to be at the heart of higher cognitive functions such as language. Research with animals has shown that various species can extract rather complex patt...