Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 24, Issue 11, Pages 930-944Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.08.005
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Funding
- NSF-PAC [1734260]
- Horizon 2020 European Union ERC [XSPECT -DLV-692739]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy [EXC 2002/1, 390523135, AB277/6]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1734260] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for the influence of language on perception, with an emphasis on the visual modality. Effects of language on perception can be observed both in higher-level processes such as recognition and in lower-level processes such as discrimination and detection. A consistent finding is that language causes us to perceive in a more categorical way. Rather than being fringe or exotic, as they are sometimes portrayed, we discuss how effects of language on perception naturally arise from the interactive and predictive nature of perception.
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