- Oxford Library of Psychology
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction to the Handbook
- Perceptual Organization in Vision
- Object Recognition
- Face Recognition
- Eye Movements
- Event Perception
- Perception and Attention
- Spatial Attention
- Disorders of Attention
- The Nature and Status of Visual Resources
- Automaticity
- Unconscious Processes
- Episodic Memory
- Semantic Memory
- Implicit Memory
- The Sources of Memory Errors
- Through the SCAPE Looking Glass-Sources of Performance and Sources of Attribution
- Event-Based Prospective Remembering: An Integration of Prospective Memory and Cognitive Control Theories
- Metamemory
- Memory in Educational Settings
- The Nature of Mental Concepts
- Culture, Expertise, and Mental Categories
- Models of Categorization
- The Perceptual Representation of Mental Categories
- Mental Images
- Speech Perception
- Spoken Word Recognition
- Basic Processes in Reading
- Text Comprehension
- Discourse Comprehension
- Early Word Learning
- Relations Between Language and Thought
- The Evolution of Language
- Emotion Perception: Putting the Face in Context
- Emotion, Stress, and Memory
- Emotion–Cognition Interactions
- An Emotion Regulation Perspective on Belief Change
- Judgment Under Uncertainty
- Induction
- Reasoning
- The Mental Models Perspective
- Analogical Learning and Reasoning
- Decision Making
- Affective Forecasting and Well-Being
- Spatial Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning
- Moral Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Insight
- Creativity
- Contemporary Theories of Intelligence
- Genes and Intelligence
- Cognitive Style
- Planning and Performing Physical Actions
- The Psychology of Practice: Lessons From Spatial Cognition
- Experts and Their Superior Performance
- Self-Knowledge
- Person Perception
- Theory of Mind
- Attitude Change
- Cultural Differences and Their Mechanisms
- The Development of Cognitive Control From Infancy Through Childhood
- The Development of Attention
- Cognitive Aging
- Epilogue: Looking Forward
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In this chapter we consider the question of whether the language one speaks affects one’s thinking. We discuss arguments showing that language cannot be taken to be the vehicle of thought. We then review evidence from several domains in which language has been proposed to reorganize conceptual representations, including color, objects and substances, space, motion, number, and spatial orientation. We conclude that linguistic representations have significant online processing effects in these and other cognitive and perceptual domains but do not alter conceptual representation.
Keywords: linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, Whorf
Lila Gleitman, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Anna Papafragou is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, where she directs the Language and Cognition Lab. Her research, funded by NSF and NIH, investigates how children acquire language, how language is used and understood online by both children and adults, and how language interfaces with human perceptual/conceptual systems cross-linguistically.
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction to the Handbook
- Perceptual Organization in Vision
- Object Recognition
- Face Recognition
- Eye Movements
- Event Perception
- Perception and Attention
- Spatial Attention
- Disorders of Attention
- The Nature and Status of Visual Resources
- Automaticity
- Unconscious Processes
- Episodic Memory
- Semantic Memory
- Implicit Memory
- The Sources of Memory Errors
- Through the SCAPE Looking Glass-Sources of Performance and Sources of Attribution
- Event-Based Prospective Remembering: An Integration of Prospective Memory and Cognitive Control Theories
- Metamemory
- Memory in Educational Settings
- The Nature of Mental Concepts
- Culture, Expertise, and Mental Categories
- Models of Categorization
- The Perceptual Representation of Mental Categories
- Mental Images
- Speech Perception
- Spoken Word Recognition
- Basic Processes in Reading
- Text Comprehension
- Discourse Comprehension
- Early Word Learning
- Relations Between Language and Thought
- The Evolution of Language
- Emotion Perception: Putting the Face in Context
- Emotion, Stress, and Memory
- Emotion–Cognition Interactions
- An Emotion Regulation Perspective on Belief Change
- Judgment Under Uncertainty
- Induction
- Reasoning
- The Mental Models Perspective
- Analogical Learning and Reasoning
- Decision Making
- Affective Forecasting and Well-Being
- Spatial Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning
- Moral Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Insight
- Creativity
- Contemporary Theories of Intelligence
- Genes and Intelligence
- Cognitive Style
- Planning and Performing Physical Actions
- The Psychology of Practice: Lessons From Spatial Cognition
- Experts and Their Superior Performance
- Self-Knowledge
- Person Perception
- Theory of Mind
- Attitude Change
- Cultural Differences and Their Mechanisms
- The Development of Cognitive Control From Infancy Through Childhood
- The Development of Attention
- Cognitive Aging
- Epilogue: Looking Forward
- Index
