Language acquisition is based on our knowledge about the world and forms through multiple sensory-motor interactions with the environment. We link the properties of individual experience formed at different stages of ontogeny with the phased development of sensory modalities and with the acquisition of words describing the appropriate forms of sensitivity. To test whether early-formed experience related to skin sensations, olfaction and taste differs from later-formed experience related to vision and hearing, we asked Russian-speaking participants to categorize or to assess the pleasantness of experience mentally reactivated by sense-related adjectives found in common dictionaries. It was found that categorizing adjectives in relation to vi...
International audienceThe judgment of pleasantness/unpleasantness is the prominent reaction to the o...
International audienceThe judgment of pleasantness/unpleasantness is the prominent reaction to the o...
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessib...
<div><p>Language acquisition is based on our knowledge about the world and forms through multiple se...
Being able to talk about what humans perceive with their senses is one of the fundamental capacities...
Language vividly connects to the world around us by encoding sensory information. For example, the w...
Liking and pleasantness are common concepts in psychological emotion theories and in everyday langua...
In the past decade, with the increasing popularity of the embodiment theories (Barsalou, 1999) resea...
Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such theories hav...
Abstract. In the semantics of many adjectives (words that characterize various properties of the obj...
How are the senses structured by the languages we speak, the cultures we inhabit? To what extent is ...
In this paper, I pursue the distributional hypothesis that the meaning of a word is derived from the...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
According to embodiment theories, our experience with the environment influences the way the concept...
How are the senses structured by the languages we speak, the cultures we inhabit? To what extent is ...
International audienceThe judgment of pleasantness/unpleasantness is the prominent reaction to the o...
International audienceThe judgment of pleasantness/unpleasantness is the prominent reaction to the o...
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessib...
<div><p>Language acquisition is based on our knowledge about the world and forms through multiple se...
Being able to talk about what humans perceive with their senses is one of the fundamental capacities...
Language vividly connects to the world around us by encoding sensory information. For example, the w...
Liking and pleasantness are common concepts in psychological emotion theories and in everyday langua...
In the past decade, with the increasing popularity of the embodiment theories (Barsalou, 1999) resea...
Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such theories hav...
Abstract. In the semantics of many adjectives (words that characterize various properties of the obj...
How are the senses structured by the languages we speak, the cultures we inhabit? To what extent is ...
In this paper, I pursue the distributional hypothesis that the meaning of a word is derived from the...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
According to embodiment theories, our experience with the environment influences the way the concept...
How are the senses structured by the languages we speak, the cultures we inhabit? To what extent is ...
International audienceThe judgment of pleasantness/unpleasantness is the prominent reaction to the o...
International audienceThe judgment of pleasantness/unpleasantness is the prominent reaction to the o...
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessib...