Research confirms that China is becoming more engaged in the Arctic. However,
international relations scholarship often extrapolates from relatively few instances of activity …

Listeners show remarkable abilities to distinguish music and speech when asked but the
essence of such categories is arguable. Here, using recordings of dùndún drumming (a …

Lupyan's (2012) label-feedback hypothesis proposes that linguistic labels affect our
conceptual and perceptual representations through top-down feedback. We investigated …

This study investigated the reorganization of perceptual categories following a short
language learning experience. A first goal was to investigate the interaction of previous …

There has been renewed research interest in Whorf's (1956) idea that language influences
cognitive processes (Pavlenko, 2014). Here our interest is in how verbal labels (or words) …

Little is known about what 4-to 6-year-old preschoolers believe or know about food, and
whether their beliefs and experiential knowledge about food differ depending on body mass …

People assume that objects labelled alike belong to the same category. Here we asked
whether the role of labels in categorization depends on individuals' language experience …

Abstract The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) is a 50-item visual recognition test used to
discriminate between genuine and feigned memory impairments. The TOMM is generally …

As children acquire language, babbling, facial expressions, vocalizations, and gestures are
used before true words are uttered around the first birthday. Does it mean that the concepts …

Vocabulary knowledge is essential for children's reading success (Dickinson & Porche,
2011; Ouellette, 2006). Unfortunately, even before formal schooling begins, glaring …