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The Cross-Linguistic Coordination of Overt Attention and Speech Production as Evidence for a Language of Vision. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
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.
Coco MI, Fernandes EG, Arai M, Keller F.
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From Being Moved to Being Still: Kama Muta Reduces Postural Sway Velocity. [PDF]

Brain Behav
Kama muta describes the emotion of being moved or touched. This study demonstrated that kama muta can stabilize posture because a reduction in sway velocity can be observed. ABSTRACT Objectives Grounded in embodiment theory, this exploratory study examines whether kama muta (as being moved/touched) elicits measurable changes in postural sway (subtle ...
Meisel M, Hofmann P, Jansen P.
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Language, silence, and logic: Zen, Nishida, and fthe Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in cognitive and cultural perspectives [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
This study employs a weakened version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as its analytical framework. Through comparative conceptual analysis, it examines Zen Buddhism’s nonverbal practices (koans and silence) and Nishida Kitaro’s dialectical philosophy of ...
Xue Kuang, Xue Kuang, Chao He, Qiang Chen, Youxing Song, Tianjiao Song   +5 more
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Linguistic Relativity in Creative Thought: How Divergent Thinking in Response to Motion Events is Influenced by Satellite‐ and Verb‐Framed Languages

The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 742-760, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Human creativity and ingenuity partly depend on divergent thinking – the ability to generate many varied, original, and elaborate responses. Prior research has found ample evidence of an effect of cognitive factors, including the organization of semantic networks and associative ability, on divergent thinking. Less is known, however, about how
Thu Anh Mai, Alwin de Rooij
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If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 285-310, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Many of Heidegger’s statements about language should sound familiar to linguistic anthropologists, starting with the pragmatic‐indexical functions of speaking (in Sein und Zeit) and continuing, in later years, with something resembling linguistic relativity.
Alessandro Duranti
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Scale in Language

Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
Abstract A central concern of the cognitive science of language since its origins has been the concept of the linguistic system. Recent approaches to the system concept in language point to the exceedingly complex relations that hold between many kinds of interdependent systems, but it can be difficult to know how to proceed when “everything is ...
N. J. Enfield
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Grounded Cognition Entails Linguistic Relativity: A Neglected Implication of a Major Semantic Theory

Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 615-647, October 2023., 2023
Abstract According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for perception and action. More precisely, the core claim is that these concrete conceptual features reuse some of the same modality‐specific representations that serve to ...
David Kemmerer
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The Role of Organizational Structure in Senior Managers' Selective Information Processing

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 60, Issue 5, Page 1178-1204, July 2023., 2023
Abstract CEOs' perceptions of the environment and the information processing shortcuts (or heuristics) they use to develop these perceptions are important to organizations. We study whether organizational structure, an important channel and filter for the flow of information in organizations, affects CEOs' perception gaps pertaining to the competitive ...
Sebastian Junge, Johannes Luger, Jan Mammen   +2 more
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An argument for sparsity

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 347-362, June 2023., 2023
Abstract I consider the influence of the language used in anthropological analysis (the metalanguage). If in principle there are at least as many anthropologies as there are languages, then we must allow the possibility of seven thousand or so more or less incommensurable anthropologies.
David Zeitlyn
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Sentiment analysis based on frequency of color names on social media

Color Research &Application, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 243-252, March/April 2023., 2023
This article does not have image in abstract. Please let me know anything else needed. Abstract This study explores the temporal changes in sentiment associated with eight color names over an 18‐month period at four observation points. We focus on the valence aspect of sentiment.
Boshuo Guo, Stephen Westland, Peihua Lai
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