Naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. Iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. The present article aims to take a specific look at th...

Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary use of speech sounds to convey meaning. For example, we tend to mark large objects with back vowels, e.g., /u/ in ”huge,” and small objects with front vowels, e.g., /i/ in ”tiny.” Previous research into sound symbolic naming has suggested that an object’s motion is considered when naming the object. We report results from two experiments in which participant...

Five chronometric experiments examined the functional architecture of naming dice, digits, and number words. Speakers named pictured dice, Arabic digits, or written number words, while simultaneously trying to ignore congruent or incongruent dice, digit, or number word distractors presented at various stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). Stroop-like interference and facilitation effects were obt...

Understanding the neural underpinning of reading disorders, such as dyslexia, is a fundamental question in developmental neuroscience. However, identifying and isolating informative components elicited during free-naming paradigms (i.e. unprompted unconstrained naming tasks) has proven challenging methodological task. These barriers have hindered study underpinnings disorders. In this paper, we...

The Tilde naming system identifres files in a distributed computing system in a novel way, providing a consistent mechanism for referencing both local and remote files that is independent of the details of the underlying computing environment. The Tilde naming system achieves this independence by providing each user with control of a private name evaluation environment. In contrast, several con...