Nonverbal category knowledge limits the amount of information encoded in object representations: EEG evidence from 12-month-old infants
To what extent does language shape how we think about the world? Studies suggest that linguistic symbols expressing conceptual categories (‘apple’, ‘squirrel’) make us focus on categorical information (e.g. that you saw a squirrel) and disregard individual information (e.g. whether that squirrel had...
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Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2021-03-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.200782 |