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Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound–meaning integration in the left amygdala [PDF]

, 2019
Recent studies have shown that a similarity between sound and meaning of a word (i.e., iconicity) can help more readily access the meaning of that word, but the neural mechanisms underlying this beneficial role of iconicity in semantic processing remain ...
Aryani A., Aryani A., Boersma P., Darwin C., De Saussure F., Deacon T., Frühholz S., Gasser M., Iwasaki N., Jacobs A. M., Jacobs A. M., Jacobs A. M., Jakobson R., Kriegeskorte N., Lockwood G., Lockwood G., Panksepp J., Perniss P., Ramachandran V. S., Schrott R., Turner M.   +20 more
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Ecological Meanings: A Consensus Paper on Individual Differences and Contextual Influences in Embodied Language. [PDF]

J Cogn, 2023
Ibáñez A, Kühne K, Miklashevsky A, Monaco E, Muraki E, Ranzini M, Speed LJ, Tuena C.   +7 more
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Still Moving [PDF]

, 2020
Here is something puzzling. Still Lifes can be expressive. Expression involves movement. Hence, (some) Still Lifes move. This seems odd. I consider a novel explanation to this ‘static-dynamic’ puzzle from Mitchell Green (2007).
Brassey, Vanessa
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Suppressing sensorimotor activity modulates the discrimination of auditory emotions but not speaker identity [PDF]

, 2010
Our ability to recognize the emotions of others is a crucial feature of human social cognition. Functional neuroimaging studies indicate that activity in sensorimotor cortices is evoked during the perception of emotion.
Banissy, Michael J, Sauter, Disa Anna, Scott, Sophie K, Walsh, Vincent, Ward, Jamie, Warren, Jane E   +5 more
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Language evolution: examining the link between cross-modality and aggression through the lens of disorders. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
Benítez-Burraco A, Progovac L.
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Where did Words Come from? A Linking Theory of Sound Symbolism and Natural Language Evolution [PDF]

, 2008
Where did words come from? The traditional view is that the relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary. An alternative hypothesis, known as sound symbolism, holds that form-meaning correspondence is systematic. Numerous examples of
David Biun, Jamie Reilly, Jonathan Peelle, Wind Cowles   +3 more
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Enlightened Romanticism: Mary Gartside’s colour theory in the age of Moses Harris, Goethe and George Field [PDF]

, 2012
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the work of Mary Gartside, a British female colour theorist, active in London between 1781 and 1808. She published three books between 1805 and 1808.
Loske, Alexandra
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Automaticity in sequence-space synaesthesia: a critical appraisal of the evidence [PDF]

, 2013
For many people, thinking about certain types of common sequence - for example calendar units or numerals - elicits a vivid experience that the sequence members occupy spatial locations which are in turn part of a larger spatial pattern of sequence ...
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The prehistory of speech and language is revealed in brain damage. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
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i-Perception

, 2019
We tested the influence of perceptual features on semantic associations between the acoustic characteristics of vowels and the notion of size. To this end, we designed an experiment in which we manipulated size on two dissociable levels: the physical ...
Ernst M. O., Fort M., Greenberg J. H., Hinton L., Köhler W., Ladefoged P., Lockwood G., Marks L. E., Marks L. E., Milán E. G., Morton E. S., Mroczko-Wąsowicz A., Ohala J. J., Ohtake Y., Osgood C. E., Oyama T., Ramachandran V. S., Reay I. E., Shinohara K., Ultan R.   +19 more
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