Language Cognition
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Language and Cognition
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2025
Language serves as a bridge between ideas and communication, influencing how individuals perceive and interact with the world. Psychologists have long debated whether language shapes thought or vice versa. This discussion gained grip with Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s, who proposed that language determines thought, a concept known as linguistic determinism. They suggested that the vocabulary and structure of a language influence how its speakers think and perceive reality.
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An Introduction to Cognition
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2023
Cognition encompasses mental processes such as memory, perception, decision-making reasoning and language. Cognitive scientists are using a combination of behavioral and neuropsychological techniques to investigate the underlying neural substrates of cognition. They are interested in understanding how information is perceived, processed and how does it affect the final execution of behaviors. With this knowledge, researchers hope to develop new treatments for individuals with cognitive...
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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization
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2017
At 3-4 months, listening to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations boosts infants' cognition; by 6 months, only human vocalizations exert this cognitive advantage. We describe an exposure manipulation that reveals the powerful shaping role of experience as infants specify which sounds to link to cognition and which to tune out.
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Practical Methodology of Cognitive Tasks Within a Navigational Assessment
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2015
Children who have complex communication needs can benefit from the use of a speech-generating device (SGD). Cognitive skills were identified as having an impact on the ability to navigate between levels of SGDs. This protocol describes the steps needed for Speech-language Pathologists to assess cognitive skills and navigational abilities.
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Language: The N400 in Semantic Incongruity
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Sarah I. Gimbel and Jonas T. Kaplan— University of Southern California Understanding language is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that humans are capable of. Given the incredible amount of possible choices when combining individual words to form meaning in sentences, it is crucial that the brain is able to identify when words form coherent combinations and when an anomaly appears that undermines meaning. Extensive research has shown that certain scalp-recorded...
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Attention helps people select relevant sounds, written symbols, words, and contextual information, while memory supports retaining and retrieving language-related information. Their interaction allows a person to maintain meaning across sentences, remember previously encountered words, and connect new material with existing knowledge. Psychology research therefore treats attention and memory as interacting processes rather than isolated contributors to language performance.
Perception provides the initial information from speech sounds or written symbols, but interpretation depends on conceptual knowledge that helps connect those signals with meaning. Language understanding therefore requires more than accurately detecting input. The mind must also use stored knowledge to recognize words, interpret sentences, and determine what information means within a broader context.
Context guides both the selection of words and the interpretation of sentences. It helps people decide which meaning is relevant, organize words into an intended message, and understand language beyond isolated symbols or sounds. This makes contextual interpretation especially important for studying how language cognition supports communication, because the same linguistic material can be understood differently depending on surrounding information.
Psychologists examine language cognition through behavioral tasks, language assessments, and studies of cognitive development. These approaches can compare how learners understand, produce, learn, or remember language at different stages. Findings help researchers develop theories of learning and communication while showing how changes in cognitive processes relate to language development and performance.
A study may combine behavioral tasks with language assessments to examine specific aspects of performance, such as understanding, production, learning, or memory. Researchers can also relate these results to studies of brain function. Using multiple approaches provides complementary evidence about how cognitive processes contribute to language and helps distinguish observable performance from broader theoretical explanations.
Research findings inform theories of learning, communication, and decision-making, and they support practical work in education and speech-language assessment. The same research also contributes to studying conditions that affect language or cognition. These applications use evidence about attention, memory, perception, conceptual knowledge, and development to understand performance and guide evaluation of language-related difficulties.