COGSCI
2007
13 years 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
2007
COGSCI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
COGSCI
2007
13 years 11 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 11 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...