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Hochmann, Jean-Remy – Cognition, 2013
The classic gavagai problem exemplifies the difficulty to identify the referent of a novel word uttered in a foreign language. Here, we consider the reverse problem: identifying the referential part of a label. Assuming "gavagai" indicates a rabbit in a foreign language, it may very well mean ""a" rabbit" or ""that" rabbit". How can a learner know…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Second Languages, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Identification
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Kiyokawa, Sachiko; Dienes, Zoltan; Tanaka, Daisuke; Yamada, Ayumi; Crowe, Louise – Cognition, 2012
Previous studies have indicated cross cultural differences in conscious processes, such that Asians have a global preference and Westerners a more analytical one. We investigated whether these biases also apply to unconscious knowledge. In Experiment 1, Japanese and UK participants memorized strings of large (global) letters made out of small…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Cultural Differences, Asians, Whites
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Goldberg, Adele E. – Cognition, 2013
Typologists have long observed that there are certain distributional patterns that are not evenly distributed among the world's languages. This discussion note revisits a recent experimental investigation of one such intriguing case, so-called "universal 18", by Culbertson, Smolensky, and Legendre (2012). The authors find that adult learners are…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Adult Students, Grammar, Artificial Languages
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Reggev, Niv; Hassin, Ran R.; Maril, Anat – Cognition, 2012
Fluency, the subjective experience of ease associated with information processing, has been shown to affect a host of judgments. Previous research has typically focused on specific factors that affect the use of a single, specific fluency source. In the present study we examine how cognitive mindsets, or processing modes, moderate fluency…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Information Processing, Cognitive Processes, Reading Fluency
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Horst, Jessica S.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Kucker, Sarah C.; McMurray, Bob – Cognition, 2011
Determining the referent of a novel name is a critical task for young language learners. The majority of studies on children's referent selection focus on manipulating the sources of information (linguistic, contextual and pragmatic) that children can use to solve the referent mapping problem. Here, we take a step back and explore how children's…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Novels, Language Acquisition
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Boyer, Ty W.; Pan, J. Samantha; Bertenthal, Bennett I. – Cognition, 2011
Recent research suggests that 9-month-old infants tested in a modified version of the A-not-B search task covertly imitate actions performed by the experimenter. The current study examines whether infants also simulate actions performed by mechanical devices, and whether this varies with whether or not they have been familiarized with the devices…
Descriptors: Infants, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Simulation
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Kinzler, Katherine D.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2011
Do infants develop meaningful social preferences among novel individuals based on their social group membership? If so, do these social preferences depend on familiarity on any dimension, or on a more specific focus on particular kinds of categorical information? The present experiments use methods that have previously demonstrated infants' social…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Toys, Race
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Devue, Christel; Van der Stigchel, Stefan; Bredart, Serge; Theeuwes, Jan – Cognition, 2009
Previous studies investigating the ability of high priority stimuli to grab attention reached contradictory outcomes. The present study used eye tracking to examine the effect of the presence of the self-face among other faces in a visual search task in which the face identity was task-irrelevant. We assessed whether the self-face (1) received…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Attention, Stimuli, Eye Movements
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Gredeback, Gustaf; Melinder, Annika – Cognition, 2010
Six- and 12-month-old infant's eye movements were recorded as they observed feeding actions being performed in a rational or non-rational manner. Twelve-month-olds fixated the goal of these actions before the food arrived (anticipation); the latency of these gaze shifts being dependent (r=0.69) on infants life experience being feed. In addition,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Familiarity, Infants, Nutrition
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Jenkins, Rob; White, David; Van Montfort, Xandra; Burton, A. Mike – Cognition, 2011
Psychological studies of face recognition have typically ignored within-person variation in appearance, instead emphasising differences "between" individuals. Studies typically assume that a photograph adequately captures a person's appearance, and for that reason most studies use just one, or a small number of photos per person. Here we show that…
Descriptors: Photography, Nonverbal Communication, Psychological Studies, Familiarity
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Scott, Ryan B.; Dienes, Zoltan – Cognition, 2010
It is commonly held that implicit knowledge expresses itself as fluency. A perceptual clarification task was used to examine the relationship between perceptual processing fluency, subjective familiarity, and grammaticality judgments in a task frequently used to produce implicit knowledge, artificial grammar learning (AGL). Four experiments…
Descriptors: Grammar, Familiarity, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis
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Holscher, Christoph; Tenbrink, Thora; Wiener, Jan M. – Cognition, 2011
This paper disentangles cognitive and communicative factors influencing planning strategies in the everyday task of choosing a route to a familiar location. Describing the way for a stranger in town calls for fundamentally different cognitive processes and strategies than actually walking to a destination. In a series of experiments, this paper…
Descriptors: Urban Environment, Navigation, Geographic Location, Familiarity
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Anaki, David; Bentin, Shlomo – Cognition, 2009
It is well established that faces, in contrast to objects, are categorized as fast or faster at the individual level (e.g., Bill Clinton) than at the basic-level (e.g., human face). This subordinate-shift from basic-level categorization has been considered an outcome of visual expertise with processing faces. However, in the present study we found…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Familiarity, Children
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Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2010
Previous work demonstrated that 9-month-olds who were familiarized with 3-syllable strings consistent with both a broader (AAB or ABA) and narrower (AA"di" or A"di"A) generalization made only the latter. Because the narrower generalization is a subset of the broader one, any example that is consistent with the broader generalization but not the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Infants, Decision Making, Generalization
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Kurby, Christopher A.; Magliano, Joseph P.; Rapp, David N. – Cognition, 2009
"Auditory imagery experiences" (AIEs) occur when readers simulate character voices while reading. This project assessed how familiarity with voice and narrative contexts influences activation of AIEs. Participants listened to dialogs between two characters. Participants then read scripts with the characters, half that had been previously listened…
Descriptors: Simulation, Reading, Cognitive Processes, Auditory Discrimination
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