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How often do researchers say they speculate? Nine literatures compared

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This reproducible descriptive analysis uses annual Scopus counts to compare how often records in nine query-defined literatures contain a form of “speculate” in their titles, abstracts or keywords. The count is a proxy for explicit wording in indexed records and says little about the quality of the evidence.

How language shapes our perception of time and magnitude

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Languages lay time out along different spatial axes and build number words in different orders. Studies with speakers of Turkish, Aymara, Mandarin, German, English and other languages examine associations between these habits and temporal or numerical tasks. The review finds effects that are context-sensitive or developmental, and no evidence that language rigidly determines thought.

Preprocessing the Norwegian Web as Corpus (NoWaC) in R

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An R script for preprocessing frequency list data from the Norwegian Web as Corpus (NoWaC), including instructions for downloading and preparing the corpus data.

Discussion of Jost et al. (2019)

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Slideshare Jost, E., Brill-Schuetz, K., Morgan-Short, K., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Input complexity affects long-term retention of statistically learned regularities in an artificial language learning task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 358. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00358

Language and vision in conceptual processing: Multilevel analysis and statistical power

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Research has suggested that conceptual processing depends on both language-based and vision-based information. We tested this interplay at three levels of the experimental structure: individuals, words and tasks. To this end, we drew on three …

Language and sensorimotor simulation in conceptual processing: Multilevel analysis and statistical power

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Multilevel analyses investigating the interplay between language-based and vision-based information in conceptual processing across semantic priming, semantic decision and lexical decision paradigms, with power analyses revealing sample size requirements for examining perceptual simulation and individual differences.