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View article: Ingredients of a Narrative: How an Abstract Feature Space and Event Position Contribute to a Situation Model
Ingredients of a Narrative: How an Abstract Feature Space and Event Position Contribute to a Situation Model Open
Situation models, mental representation of events that are unfolding in the environment, are known to help structure our experiences in our memory, but what exactly are the ingredients of a situation model and to what degree do abstract ev…
View article: Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception
Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception Open
The popularity of colour perception as a vehicle to investigate language–perception interactions has led to a large body of experimental work. Recently, studies have focused on investigating the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms o…
View article: Fallacies and biases
Fallacies and biases Open
When processing political arguments, people are strongly affected by their prior ideological beliefs. Political cognition often relies on two types of ideological biases. Firstly, confirmation bias leads addressees of political communicati…
View article: Ingredients of a narrative: How an abstract feature space and event position contribute to a situation model
Ingredients of a narrative: How an abstract feature space and event position contribute to a situation model Open
Situation models, mental representation of events that are unfolding in the environment, are known to help structure our experiences in our memory. But what exactly are the ingredients of a situation model and to what degree do abstract ev…
View article: Linguistic Priors for Perception
Linguistic Priors for Perception Open
In this commentary, we approach the topic of linguistic relativity from a predictive coding perspective. Discussing the role of “priors” in shaping perception, we argue that language creates an important set of priors for humans, which can…
View article: The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension
The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension Open
A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in general cognition and prominently encoded in language, wit…
View article: The Potential of Immersive Virtual Reality for the Study of Event Perception
The Potential of Immersive Virtual Reality for the Study of Event Perception Open
In everyday life, we actively engage in different activities from a first-person perspective. However, experimental psychological research in the field of event perception is often limited to relatively passive, third-person computer-based…
View article: Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals
Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals Open
Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turk…
View article: Event endings in memory and language
Event endings in memory and language Open
Memory is fundamental for comprehending and segmenting the flow of activity around us into units called “events”. Here, we investigate the effect of the movement dynamics of actions (ceased, ongoing) and the inner structure of events (with…
View article: Event endings in memory and language
Event endings in memory and language Open
Memory is fundamental for comprehending and segmenting the flow of activity around us into units called “events”. Here, we investigate the effect of the movement dynamics of actions (ceased, ongoing) and the inner structure of events (with…
View article: Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension
Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension Open
Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event roles ("who does what to whom"). We demonstrate a role for syntac…
View article: Resultative event representations in Dutch children and adults : Does describing events help memory?
Resultative event representations in Dutch children and adults : Does describing events help memory? Open
The development of event representations happens in interaction with language acquisition. This acquisition process involves learning to form associations between verbs and components of event representations. While the effect of describin…
View article: Going places in Dutch and mandarin Chinese: conceptualising the path of motion cross-linguistically
Going places in Dutch and mandarin Chinese: conceptualising the path of motion cross-linguistically Open
textabstractWe study to what extent linguistic differences in grammatical aspect systems and verb lexicalisation patterns of Dutch and mandarin Chinese affect how speakers conceptualise the path of motion in motion events, using descriptio…
View article: Rapid target selection of object categories based on verbs: Implications for language‐categorization interactions
Rapid target selection of object categories based on verbs: Implications for language‐categorization interactions Open
Although much is known about how nouns facilitate object categorization, very little is known about how verbs (e.g., posture verbs such as stand or lie) facilitate object categorization. Native Dutch speakers are a unique population to inv…
View article: Can the English <i>stand</i> the bottle like the Dutch? Effects of relational categories on object perception
Can the English <i>stand</i> the bottle like the Dutch? Effects of relational categories on object perception Open
Does language influence how we perceive the world? This study examines how linguistic encoding of relational information by means of verbs implicitly affects visual processing, by measuring perceptual judgements behaviourally, and visual p…
View article: Keeping the Result in Sight and Mind: General Cognitive Principles and Language‐Specific Influences in the Perception and Memory of Resultative Events
Keeping the Result in Sight and Mind: General Cognitive Principles and Language‐Specific Influences in the Perception and Memory of Resultative Events Open
We study how people attend to and memorize endings of events that differ in the degree to which objects in them are affected by an action: Resultative events show objects that undergo a visually salient change in state during the course of…
View article: Lexical prediction in language comprehension: a replication study of grammatical gender effects in Dutch
Lexical prediction in language comprehension: a replication study of grammatical gender effects in Dutch Open
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View article: Lexical prediction in language comprehension: a replication study of grammatical gender effects in Dutch
Lexical prediction in language comprehension: a replication study of grammatical gender effects in Dutch Open
[This is a postprint/accepted version of the manuscript. It is now published: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1524500 . Please cite the published version.] An important question in predictive language processing is the extent to whic…
View article: First things first? Top-down influences on event apprehension
First things first? Top-down influences on event apprehension Open
Not much is known about event apprehension, the earliest stage of information processing in elicited language production studies, using pictorial stimuli. A reason for our lack of knowledge on this process is that apprehension happens very…