Extracommunicative functions of language: Verbal interference causes selective categorization impairments
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Extracommunicative functions of language: verbal interference causes selective categorization impairments.
In addition to its communicative functions, language has been argued to have a variety of extracommunicative functions, as assessed by its causal involvement in putatively nonlinguistic tasks. In the present work, I argue that language may be critically involved in the ability of human adults to categorize objects on a specific dimension (e.g., color) while abstracting over other dimensions (e....
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/pbr.16.4.711