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Do young children, like young adults, remember animates better than inanimates?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has repeatedly been shown in adults that animates are remembered better than inanimates. According to the adaptive view of human memory this is due to the fact that animates are generally more important for survival than inanimates.
Aurélia Bugaiska +2 more
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Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning
Open Linguistics, 2018 Linguistic animacy reflects a particular construal of biological distinctions encountered in the world, passed through cultural and cognitive filters. This study explores the process by which our construal of animacy becomes encoded in the grammars of ...
Vihman Virve-Anneli +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Several studies suggest that referential choices are influenced by animacy. On the one hand, animate referents are more likely to be mentioned as subjects than inanimate referents.
Jorrig eVogels +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionAnimacy distinguishes living (animate) things from non-living (inanimate) things. People tend to devote attention and processing to living over nonliving things, resulting in a privileged status for animate concepts in human cognition.
Michael J. Serra, Carlee M. DeYoung
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Target animacy influences gorilla handedness [PDF]
Animal Cognition, 2011 We investigated the unimanual actions of a biological family group of twelve western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) using a methodological approach designed to assess behavior within social context from a bottom-up perspective. Measures of both the lateralization of unimanual actions (left, right) and the target of the action (animate ...
G. S. Forrester +3 more
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Target animacy influences chimpanzee handedness [PDF]
Animal Cognition, 2012 We employed a bottom-up, quantitative method to investigate great ape handedness. Our previous investigation of gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) demonstrated that contextual information influenced an individual's handedness toward target objects. Specifically, we found a significant right-hand bias for unimanual actions directed toward inanimate ...
Forrester, G. S. +4 more
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Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception
iScience, 2023 Summary: Humans can distinguish flying birds from drones based solely on motion features when no image information is available. However, it remains unclear which motion features of animate motion induce our animacy perception.
Yifei Han +4 more
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How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements
Open Linguistics, 2019 There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object.
de Swart Peter, van Bergen Geertje
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A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems
Linguistics, 2022 Northwestern Bantu is the most linguistically diverse area of the Bantu-speaking world. Several unusual grammatical gender systems are reported for this area, but there has been a lack of comprehensive comparative studies.
Di Garbo Francesca, Verkerk Annemarie
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In the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test - with ...
Olivera Ilic, Vanja Kovic, Suzy J Styles
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