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Attribution of Selfhood Based on Simple Behavioral Cues: Toward a Pars‐Pro‐Toto Account
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2026.Abstract While the necessity of a concept of “self” for understanding human behavior remains subject to debate, it evidently has significance in everyday life: Lay individuals ascribe selves to humans but also to animals and technical systems, shaping their interactions accordingly.
Jan Pohl +5 more
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Effects of speeding up or slowing down animate or inanimate motions on timing [PDF]
, 2012 It has recently been suggested that time perception and motor timing are influenced by the presence of biological movements and animacy in the visual scene. Here, we investigated the interactions among timing, speed and animacy in two experiments.
Carrozzo, M, Lacquaniti, F
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 67-102, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates how distributional cues are integrated into the mental representation of the as‐predicative construction by English native and nonnative speakers, drawing on associative learning theory. We examined speakers’ constructional retrieval when given a verbal cue (Experiment 1) and their verb retrieval when given a ...
Ivana Domazetoska, Helen Zhao
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 176-210, March 2026.Abstract We employed structural priming to test whether targeted exposure to unambiguous form–meaning mappings led to learning of noncanonical word orders, specifically in object relative clauses, among 165 low‐to‐intermediate‐level L1 German L2 learners of English.
Holger Hopp +4 more
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The syntactic status of objects in Mòòré ditransitive constructions [PDF]
, 2015 C
Pacchiarotti, Sara
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GlossaWe examined the acquisition of third-person accusative clitics (e.g., lo, la, los, las) in L2 Spanish among Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers. In BP, the animacy of the referent is the main feature constraining accusative pronoun use while, in Spanish ...
Abril Jimenez +2 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract A central question in cognition is how representations are integrated across different modalities, such as language and vision. One prominent hypothesis posits the existence of an abstract, prelinguistic “language of vision” as a representational system that organizes meaning compositionally, enabling cross‐modal integration.
Moreno I. Coco +3 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Languages describe “who is doing what to whom” by distinguishing the event roles of agent (doer) and patient (undergoer), but it is debated whether they result from nonlinguistic representations that may already exist in preverbal infants and nonhuman animals. The phenomenon of causal perception, where the subsequent movements of two objects A
Floor Meewis +5 more
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Categories and paradigms : on underspecification in Russian declension [PDF]
, 2009 In morphological systems of the agglutinative type we sometimes encounter a nearly perfect one-to-one relation between form and function. Turkish inflectional morphology is, of course, the standard textbook example.
Wiese, Bernd
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Nature tables: Discovering Children's interest in natural objects [PDF]
, 2007 Primary school pupils in the UK today may be less familiar with natural objects, less exposed to formal natural history teaching and have less time given to school-based observation and discussion of natural objects. This study of children’s responses to
Tomkins, Stephen, Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale
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