Browsing Department of Psychosocial Science by Subject "language"

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    • Agents and patients in physical settings: Linguistic cues affect the assignment of causality in German and Tongan 

      Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07-07)
      Linguistic cues may be considered a potent tool for focusing attention on causes or effects. In this paper, we explore how different cues affect causal assignments in German and Tongan. From a larger screening study, two ...

    • The Cultural Challenge in Mathematical Cognition 

      Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea; Chrisomalis, Stephen; Jordan, Fiona M.; Overmann, Karenleigh A.; Saxe, Geoffrey B.; Schlimm, Dirk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      In their recent paper on “Challenges in mathematical cognition”, Alcock and colleagues (Alcock et al. [2016]. Challenges in mathematical cognition: A collaboratively-derived research agenda. Journal of Numerical Cognition, ...

    • Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations 

      Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Klauer, Karl Christoph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      The question of whether language affects thought is long-standing, with grammatical gender being one of the most contended instances. Empirical evidence focuses on the gender congruency effect, according to which referents ...

    • Variability in the alignment of number and space across languages and tasks 

      Bender, Andrea; Rothe-Wulf, Annelie; Beller, Sieghard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10-04)
      While the domains of space and number appear to be linked in human brains and minds, their conceptualization still differs across languages and cultures. For instance, frames of reference for spatial descriptions vary ...