Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Crosslinguistic research on domains including kinship, color, folk biology, number, and
spatial relations has documented the different ways in which languages carve up the world …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

The World Color Survey [WCS] was undertaken to investigate the main findings of Berlin and
Kay [B&K](1). These were (A) that there exist universal cross-linguistic constraints on color …

The utility of our actions frequently depends upon the beliefs and behavior of other agents.
Thankfully, through experience, we learn norms and conventions that provide stable …

Robotics is expected to play a major role in the agricultural domain, and often multi-robot
systems and collaborative approaches are mentioned as potential solutions to improve …

Words categorize the semantic fields they refer to in ways that maximize communication
accuracy while minimizing complexity. Focusing on the well-studied color domain, we show …

Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: They provide stable, shared
expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …