The Role of Words in Cognitive Tasks: What, When, and How?

The Role of Words in Cognitive Tasks: What, When, and How?

The current review focuses on how exposure to linguistic input affects performance on various cognitive tasks, including individuation, categorization and category learning, and inductive inference. We review two theoretical accounts of effects of words. Proponents of one account argue that words h...

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Main Authors:	Christoper W Robinson, Catherine A Best, Wei (Sophia) eDeng, Vladimir eSloutsky
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-04-01
Series:	Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:	Attention Categorization word learning cognitive development
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00095/full

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