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Showing papers in "Cognition in 2005"


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TL;DR: The approach is sufficiently problematic that it cannot be used to support claims about evolution and related arguments that language is not an adaptation, namely that it is "perfect," non-redundant, unusable in any partial form, and badly designed for communication.

850 citations


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TL;DR: Findings indicate that infants can rapidly form goal-based action representations and suggest a developmental link between infants' goal directed actions and their ability to detect goals in the actions of others.

644 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that progress in understanding the evolution of language will require much more empirical research, grounded in modern comparative biology, more interdisciplinary collaboration, and much less of the adaptive storytelling and phylogenetic speculation that has traditionally characterized the field.

539 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that the simulation approach offers the best explanation of the data: deficits in face-based recognition are paired with deficits in the production of the same emotion for three emotions, fear, disgust, and anger.

535 citations


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TL;DR: It is shown that the sense of self-agency, that is the sense that I am the one who is generating an action, largely depends on the degree of discrepancy resulting from comparison between the predicted and actual sensory feedback.

383 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that eye movements are driven by the degree of match, along various dimensions that go beyond simple visual form, between a word and the mental representations of objects in the concurrent visual field.

378 citations


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TL;DR: G gesture continues to be at the cutting edge of early language development, providing stepping-stones to increasingly complex linguistic constructions, and changed over time and presaged changes in their speech.

343 citations


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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that 12-month-old infants understand that the initial step of the cloth-pulling sequence is directed toward the ultimate goal of attaining the toy, and use their knowledge of the causal constraints of the sequence to make this goal attribution.

322 citations


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TL;DR: It is shown that recursion, though absent from other animals’ communications systems, is found in visual cognition, hence cannot be the sole evolutionary development that granted language to humans.

319 citations


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TL;DR: The specificity of the processing mechanisms required to construct simulations during language comprehension are explored, and it is suggested that these mechanisms can be quite specific.

300 citations


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TL;DR: Findings suggest that bilingual reading acquisition is a joint function of shared phonological processes and orthographic specific skills in children learning to read two different writing systems.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that the development of lexical-colour synaesthesia in many cases incorporates early learning experiences common to all individuals, and that the learning of such sequences during an early critical period determines the particular pattern of lexicals-colour links and that this pattern then generalises to other words.

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TL;DR: While infants failed to represent 4 as "exactly 4, "approximately 4", "3", or as even as "a plurality", they did represent information about the array, including the existence of a cracker or cracker-material and the size of the individual objects in the array.

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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that when attentional resources are depleted, word segmentation based on statistical regularities is seriously compromised.

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TL;DR: On-line influence of depicted events on incremental thematic role-assignment and disambiguation of local structural and role ambiguity is revealed, and a theory of on-line sentence comprehension that exploits a rich inventory of semantic categories is argued.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that children learning language parse words that refer to individuals as count nouns unless given morpho-syntactic and referential evidence to the contrary are acquired, in which case object-mass nouns are acquired.

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TL;DR: The linguistic encoding of Paths in children between the ages of three and seven, in children with Williams syndrome, and in normal adults, showed an asymmetry, with Goal Paths regularly and systematically encoded, but Source Paths often omitted.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that audience design depends on the memory representations to which speakers have ready access given the time constraints of routine conversation.

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TL;DR: This paper presents a series of analyses of phonological cues and distributional cues and their potential for distinguishing grammatical categories of words in corpus analyses and indicates that phonological and Distributional cues contribute differentially towards grammatical categorisation.

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TL;DR: The present results shed new light regarding the specificity of early words, and raise the possibility of different contributions for vowels and consonants in early word learning.

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TL;DR: The results of these studies suggest that stress information in the ambient language not only shapes how statistics are calculated over the speech input, but that it is also encoded in the representations of parsed speech sequences.

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TL;DR: It is shown that at 6 months infants are also primarily relative pitch processors, and showed no preference for a transposed over original-pitch version of the familiarized melody, indicating that either they did not remember the absolute pitch, or it was not as salient to them as the relative pitch.

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TL;DR: Self-recognition was significantly more accurate when subjects were themselves the authors of the action, even though visual and proprioceptive information always specified the same posture, and despite the fact that subjects judged the effect and not the action per se.

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TL;DR: In the present studies, children with autism were impaired in monitoring referential intent, but were equally successful as normally developing 24-month-old toddlers at mapping novel words to unnamed items under conditions of referentials ambiguity.

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TL;DR: The results suggest that the modality of representation recruited to generate images of human action is dependent on the dynamic relationship between the individual, movement, and environment.

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TL;DR: The evidence suggests that for 12-month-old infants, consistency in naming is critical and the results lend strength and greater precision to the argument that naming has powerful and rather nuanced conceptual consequences for infants as well as for mature speakers.

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TL;DR: This study shows that rhesus monkeys spontaneously compute addition operations over large numbers, as opposed to continuous extents, and that the limit on this ability is set by the ratio difference between two numbers as opposedto their absolute difference.

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TL;DR: The paper advances the tentative conclusion that consciousness may go hand-in-hand with a solution to the frame problem in the biological brain, by advocating a global workspace architecture, with its ability to manage massively parallel resources in the context of a serial thread of computation.

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TL;DR: Examining lexical stress in the context of silent reading by measuring eye movements offers empirical support for the implicit prosody hypothesis and suggests that stress assignment may be the completing phase of lexical access, at least in terms of eye movement control.

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TL;DR: The impact of visual similarity on written word identification was assessed by having participants learn new words that were neighbours of familiar words that previously had no neighbours that made it more difficult to semantically categorize the familiar words.