Do Infants Learn Words From Statistics? Evidence From English-Learning Infants Hearing Italian [0.03%]
婴儿能否通过统计方法学习词语？以接触意大利语的英语学习婴儿为例证
Amber Shoaib,Tianlin Wang,Jessica F Hay et al.
Amber Shoaib et al.
Infants are sensitive to statistical regularities (i.e., transitional probabilities, or TPs) relevant to segmenting words in fluent speech. However, there is debate about whether tracking TPs results in representations of possible words. In...
Judith E Fan,Daniel L K Yamins,Nicholas B Turk-Browne
Judith E Fan
Production and comprehension have long been viewed as inseparable components of language. The study of vision, by contrast, has centered almost exclusively on comprehension. Here we investigate drawing-the most basic form of visual producti...
Kevin J Holmes,Stephen J Flusberg,Paul H Thibodeau
Kevin J Holmes
Parts of the body are often embedded in the structure of compound words, such as heartbreak and brainchild. We explored the relationships between the semantics of compounds and their constituent body parts, asking whether these relationship...
Hand Position and Response Assignment Modulate the Activation of the Valence-Space Conceptual Metaphor [0.03%]
手的位置和反应分配调节唤醒效价-空间隐喻概念激活作用
Emilia Castaño,Elizabeth Gilboy,Sara Feijóo et al.
Emilia Castaño et al.
Conceptual metaphor is ubiquitous in language and thought, as we usually reason and talk about abstract concepts in terms of more concrete ones via metaphorical mappings that are hypothesized to arise from our embodied experience. One perva...
How Do Creative Experts Practice New Skills? Exploratory Practice in Breakdancers [0.03%]
创意专家如何练习新技能？街舞者的探索式实践
Daichi Shimizu,Takeshi Okada
Daichi Shimizu
How do expert performers practice as they develop creatively? This study investigated the processes involved in the practice of new skills by expert breakdancers. A great deal of evidence supports the theory of "deliberate practice" (Ericss...
Markus J Hofmann,Chris Biemann,Chris Westbury et al.
Markus J Hofmann et al.
What determines human ratings of association? We planned this paper as a test for association strength (AS) that is derived from the log likelihood that two words co-occur significantly more often together in sentences than is expected from...
Steven Verheyen,Paul Égré
Steven Verheyen
This paper concerns an investigation of the manner in which typicality constrains graded membership in antonymous dimensional adjectives such as short/tall and cheap/expensive using the conceptual spaces framework. In this framework, items ...
More Than the Eye Can See: A Computational Model of Color Term Acquisition and Color Discrimination [0.03%]
超越视觉：颜色术语习得和颜色辨别能力的计算模型
Barend Beekhuizen,Suzanne Stevenson
Barend Beekhuizen
We explore the following two cognitive questions regarding crosslinguistic variation in lexical semantic systems: Why are some linguistic categories-that is, the associations between a term and a portion of the semantic space-harder to lear...
When Extremists Win: Cultural Transmission Via Iterated Learning When Populations Are Heterogeneous [0.03%]
极端者获胜时的文化传递：当人口异质时的迭代学习
Danielle J Navarro,Amy Perfors,Arthur Kary et al.
Danielle J Navarro et al.
How does the process of information transmission affect the cultural or linguistic products that emerge? This question is often studied experimentally and computationally via iterated learning, a procedure in which participants learn from p...
Awe as a Scientific Emotion [0.03%]
敬畏：一种科学情感
Sara Gottlieb,Dacher Keltner,Tania Lombrozo
Sara Gottlieb
Awe has traditionally been considered a religious or spiritual emotion, yet scientists often report that awe motivates them to answer questions about the natural world, and to do so in naturalistic terms. Indeed, awe may be closely related ...