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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Dering, Benjamin; Wiggett, Alison; Kuipers, Jan-Rouke; Thierry, Guillaume – Cognition, 2010
The validity of the linguistic relativity principle continues to stimulate vigorous debate and research. The debate has recently shifted from the behavioural investigation arena to a more biologically grounded field, in which tangible physiological evidence for language effects on perception can be obtained. Using brain potentials in a colour…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistics, Brain, Cultural Context
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Kuipers, Jan-Rouke; La Heij, Wido; Costa, Albert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Most current models of speech production predict interference from related context words in picture-naming tasks. However, Glaser and Dungelhoff (1984) reported semantic facilitation when the task was changed from basic-level naming to category-level naming. The authors explore two proposals to account for this change in polarity of the semantic…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Semantics, Speech, Context Effect