Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-10-01Epub Date: 2020-06-17DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1782362
Yuri Agrawal
{"title":"Vestibular cognition: building a framework.","authors":"Yuri Agrawal","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1782362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1782362","url":null,"abstract":"Ferre and Haggard (this issue) provide a conceptual framework for understanding vestibular cognition, and articulate a clear research programme to substantially advance this field. Vestibular cogni...","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 7-8","pages":"421-422"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1782362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38055995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is native quantitative thought concretized in linguistically privileged ways? A look at the global picture","authors":"C. Everett","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2019.1668368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1668368","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work investigates whether reference in speech to certain quantities, namely 1, 2, and 3, is privileged linguistically due to our brain’s native quantitative capacities. It is suggested that these small quantities are not privileged in specific ways suggested in the literature. The case that morphology privileges these quantities, apart from 1, is difficult to maintain in light of the cross-linguistic data surveyed. The grammatical expression of 2 is explained without appealing to innate quantitative reasoning and the grammatical expression of 3 is not truly characteristic of speech once language relatedness is considered. The case that 1, 2, and 3 are each privileged lexically is also difficult to maintain in the face of the global linguistic data. While native neurobiological architecture biases humans towards recognizing small quantities in precise ways, these biases do not yield clear patterns in numerical language worldwide.","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 1","pages":"340 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2019.1668368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45176774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2019-07-04DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2019.1637338
Guy Dove
{"title":"More than a scaffold: Language is a neuroenhancement.","authors":"Guy Dove","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2019.1637338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1637338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What role does language play in our thoughts? A longstanding proposal that has gained traction among supporters of embodied or grounded cognition suggests that it serves as a cognitive scaffold. This idea turns on the fact that language-with its ability to capture statistical regularities, leverage culturally acquired information, and engage grounded metaphors-is an effective and readily available support for our thinking. In this essay, I argue that language should be viewed as more than this; it should be viewed as a neuroenhancement. The neurologically realized language system is an important subcomponent of a flexible, multimodal, and multilevel conceptual system. It is not merely a source for information about the world but also a computational add-on that extends our conceptual reach. This approach provides a compelling explanation of the course of development, our facility with abstract concepts, and even the scope of language-specific influences on cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"288-311"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2019.1637338","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37114514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2019-12-20DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2019.1685480
Dimitrios Skordos, Ann Bunger, Catherine Richards, Stathis Selimis, John Trueswell, Anna Papafragou
{"title":"Motion verbs and memory for motion events.","authors":"Dimitrios Skordos, Ann Bunger, Catherine Richards, Stathis Selimis, John Trueswell, Anna Papafragou","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2019.1685480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1685480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Language is assumed to affect memory by offering an additional medium of encoding visual stimuli. Given that natural languages differ, cross-linguistic differences might impact memory processes. We investigate the role of motion verbs on memory for motion events in speakers of English, which preferentially encodes <i>manner</i> in motion verbs (e.g., <i>driving</i>), and Greek, which tends to encode <i>path</i> of motion in verbs (e.g., <i>entering</i>). Participants viewed a series of motion events and we later assessed their memory of the path and manner of the original events. There were no effects of language-specific biases on memory when participants watched events in silence; both English and Greek speakers remembered paths better than manners of motion. Moreover, even when motion verbs were available (either produced by or heard by the participants), they affected memory similarly regardless of the participants' language: path verbs attenuated memory for manners of motion, but the reverse did not occur. We conclude that overt language affects motion memory, but these effects interact with underlying, shared biases in how viewers represent motion events.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"254-270"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2019.1685480","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37473779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2020-08-26DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1802241
Francesca Franzon, Chiara Zanini, Rosa Rugani
{"title":"Cognitive and communicative pressures in the emergence of grammatical structure: A closer look at whether number sense is encoded in privileged ways.","authors":"Francesca Franzon, Chiara Zanini, Rosa Rugani","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1802241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1802241","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent article, Everett (2019) proposed a culture-centered account of the distribution of the observed values for an almost universal grammatical feature, morphological Number (Haspelmath, 201...","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"355-358"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1802241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38309738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2019.1607272
Monique Flecken, Geertje van Bergen
{"title":"Can the English <i>stand</i> the bottle like the Dutch? Effects of relational categories on object perception.","authors":"Monique Flecken, Geertje van Bergen","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2019.1607272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1607272","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Does language influence how we perceive the world? This study examines how linguistic encoding of relational information by means of verbs implicitly affects visual processing, by measuring perceptual judgements behaviourally, and visual perception and attention in EEG. Verbal systems can vary cross-linguistically: Dutch uses posture verbs to describe inanimate object configurations (<i>the bottle stands/lies on the table</i>). In English, however, such use of posture verbs is rare (<i>the bottle is on the table</i>). Using this test case, we ask (1) whether previously attested language-perception interactions extend to more complex domains, and (2) whether differences in linguistic usage probabilities affect perception. We report three nonverbal experiments in which Dutch and English participants performed a picture-matching task. Prime and target pictures contained object configurations (e.g., a bottle on a table); in the critical condition, prime and target showed a mismatch in object position (standing/lying). In both language groups, we found similar responses, suggesting that probabilistic differences in linguistic encoding of relational information do not affect perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"271-287"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2019.1607272","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37396140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2020-05-31DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1769050
Panos Athanasopoulos, Aina Casaponsa
{"title":"The Whorfian brain: Neuroscientific approaches to linguistic relativity.","authors":"Panos Athanasopoulos, Aina Casaponsa","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1769050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1769050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Modern approaches to the Whorfian linguistic relativity question have reframed it from one of whether language shapes our thinking or not, to one that tries to understand the factors that contribute to the extent and nature of any observable influence of language on perception. The current paper demonstrates that such understanding is significantly enhanced by moving the evidentiary basis toward a more biologically grounded empirical arena. We review recent neuroscientific evidence using a variety of methodological techniques that reveal the functional organisation and temporal distribution of the ubiquitous relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"393-412"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1769050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37994606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2020-10-05DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1824992
Caleb Everett
{"title":"Grammatical number is sufficiently explained by communicative needs.","authors":"Caleb Everett","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1824992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2020.1824992","url":null,"abstract":"Franzon, Zanini and Rugani offer a useful clarification of their viewpoint expressed in earlier work. (Franzon et al., 2020; Franson et al. 2019) Their account might be encapsulated as follows: A) ...","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"359-362"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2020.1824992","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38450272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychologyPub Date : 2020-07-01Epub Date: 2019-06-23DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2019.1623188
Laura J Speed, Asifa Majid
{"title":"Grounding language in the neglected senses of touch, taste, and smell.","authors":"Laura J Speed, Asifa Majid","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2019.1623188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1623188","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such theories have focused predominantly on the dominant senses of sight and hearing. Relatively fewer studies have assessed mental simulation within touch, taste, and smell, even though they are critically implicated in communication for important domains, such as health and wellbeing. We review work that sheds light on whether perceptual activation from lesser studied modalities contribute to meaning in language. We critically evaluate data from behavioural, imaging, and cross-cultural studies. We conclude that evidence for sensorimotor simulation in touch, taste, and smell is weak. Comprehending language related to these senses may instead rely on simulation of emotion, as well as crossmodal simulation of the \"higher\" senses of vision and audition. Overall, the data suggest the need for a refinement of embodiment theories, as not all sensory modalities provide equally strong evidence for mental simulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"363-392"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02643294.2019.1623188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37357168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactions between language, thought, and perception: Cognitive and neural perspectives.","authors":"Bradford Z Mahon, David Kemmerer","doi":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1829578","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02643294.2020.1829578","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b> The role that language plays in shaping non-linguistic cognitive and perceptual systems has been the subject of much theoretical and experimental attention over the past half-century. Understanding how language interacts with non-linguistic systems can provide insight into broader constraints on cognitive and brain organization. The papers that form this volume investigate various ways in which linguistic structure can interact with and influence how speakers think about and perceive the world, and the related issue of the constraints that in turn shape linguistic representations. These theoretical and empirical contributions support deeper understanding of the interactions between language, thought, and perception, and motivate new approaches for developing directional predictions at both the neural and cognitive levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":50670,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychology","volume":"37 5-6","pages":"235-240"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38585823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}