Effects of context are pervasive throughout perceptual and cognitive processing domains. Many studies have shown context effects in language processing, but these studies have mostly focused on local, linguistic contexts. As a step toward situating language processing in the broad scope of cognitive processing, we investigated the effect of a global, nonlinguistic context on homophone ambiguity...

In this article we are aiming to build cognitive semantics over a first person perspective. Our goal is to specify meanings connected to cognitive agents, rooted in their experience and separable from language, covering a wide spectrum of cognitions ranging from living organisms (animals, pre-verbal children and adult humans) to artificial agents and covering a broad, continuous, spectrum of me...