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Adding Types, But Not Tokens, Affects Property Induction

Abstract The extent to which we generalize a novel property from a sample of familiar instances to novel instances depends on the sample composition. Previous property induction experiments have only used samples consisting of novel types (unique entities). Because real‐world evidence samples often contain redundant tokens (repetitions of the same entity), we studied the effects […]

Published on September 16, 2020

Evaluating Models of Gesture and Speech Production for People With Aphasia

Abstract People with aphasia use gestures not only to communicate relevant content but also to compensate for their verbal limitations. The Sketch Model (De Ruiter, 2000) assumes a flexible relationship between gesture and speech with the possibility of a compensatory use of the two modalities. In the successor of the Sketch Model, the AR‐Sketch Model […]

Published on September 16, 2020

Flexing Gender Perception: Brain Potentials Reveal the Cognitive Permeability of Grammatical Information

Abstract A growing body of recent research suggests that verbal categories, particularly labels, impact categorization and perception. These findings are commonly interpreted as demonstrating the involvement of language on cognition; however, whether these assumptions hold true for grammatical structures has yet to be investigated. In the present study, we investigated the extent to which linguistic […]

Published on September 16, 2020