Sound symbolism or the nonarbitrary link between language sound and meaning are commonly found across many languages of the world. A well-known example is the association between rounded vs. angular shapes and labels (i.e., the Bouba-kiki effect by Köhler, 1929/1947). Previous research has shown that sound symbolic words play facilitative role for preschool children’s novel verb learning (Imai,...

Many studies with different settings have confirmed that there is a performance difference in spatial skills between men and women, especially in the domain of mental rotation. The mental rotation performance is influenced by many different factors, such as training, sexual orientation, age, hormonal level or psychological influence. Video game usage positively affects the performance on mental...

Let F be a number field with discriminant ∆F . Denote its (normalized) absolute values by SF , and write SF = Sfin · ∪ S∞, where S∞ denotes the collection of all archimedean valuations. For simplicity, we use v (resp. σ) to denote elements in Sfin (resp. S∞). Denote by A = AF the ring of adeles of F , and Glr(A) the rank r general linear group over A, and write A := Afin ⊕A∞ and Glr(A) := Glr(A...

Whatever else it is, communication research is gendered work. This has been true since its inception as an academic field, and in its commercial, civic, and educational wings as well. The specific gendering of its work has varied across time, region, and institution. But across all contexts, gender and affiliated relations of difference have been constitutive forces in the (re)production of the...

Macpherson (Nous 40(1):82–117, 2006) argues that the square/regular diamond figure threatens representationalism, construed as the theory which holds that the phenomenal character is explained by the nonconceptual content of experience. Her argument is the claim that representationalism is committed to the thesis that differences in the experience of ambiguous figures, the gestalt switch, shoul...

Table S1: Robustness with different choices of K. We use two metrics: deviation (the smaller the better) and correlation (the larger the better). We simulated 10 two-way admixed individuals with λ = 1cM; using S = 2 and γ = 50 we infer the local ancestry using K = 5, 10, 20. In each cell, we put mean ± standard deviation. The larger standard error compare to Table 1 in main text because we use ...