COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
The sounds that make up spoken words are heard in a series and must be mapped rapidly onto words in memory because their elements, unlike those of visual words, cannot simultaneou...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We investigate a possible universal constraint on spatial meaning. It has been proposed that people attend preferentially to the endpoints of spatial motion events, and that langu...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Languages are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation via a process of iterated learning: people learn a language from other people who once learned that la...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
It has been suggested that iconic graphical signs evolve into symbolic graphical signs through repeated usage. This article reports a series of interactive graphical communication...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
In their article, Is the Brain a Quantum Computer,? Litt, Eliasmith, Kroon, Weinstein, and Thagard (2006) criticize the Penrose–Hameroff “Orch OR” quantum computational mode...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Color coding is used to guide attention in computer displays for such critical tasks as baggage screening or air traffic control. It has been shown that a display object attracts...
COGSCI
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
It makes sense that the more information people share, the better they communicate. To evaluate the effect of knowledge overlap on the effectiveness of communication, participants...