What makes words special? Words as unmotivated cues
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What makes words special? Words as unmotivated cues.
Verbal labels, such as the words "dog" and "guitar," activate conceptual knowledge more effectively than corresponding environmental sounds, such as a dog bark or a guitar strum, even though both are unambiguous cues to the categories of dogs and guitars (Lupyan & Thompson-Schill, 2012). We hypothesize that this advantage of labels emerges because word-forms, unlike other cues, do not vary in a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.06.008