The interplay between language and colour perception has emerged as a pivotal topic in recent cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistic research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the words we use ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Commentary: Language shapes public perception. When words are used carelessly or are intentionally anthropomorphic, the public ends up with a distorted picture of what AI can and can't do. Macy is a ...

“SHAPE: The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages,” encompasses the way that shape figures into the learning of 44 different languages — systematically sampled ...

Bilingualism and language perception research has radically reshaped our understanding of cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic processing. Contemporary studies demonstrate that ...