Beyond the Sentence Given Hagoort & van Berkum (2007) Argue against the two stage model of sentence comprehension where first literal semantic meaning is computed and then this information is interpreted with world knowledge, prior discourse and speaker information in favor of immediate unification of all information sources. Uses ERP and fMRI studies to show […]
Information Theory Shows Why We Have Only Three Lightness Terms – Baddeley & Attewell (2009) Quantifies the amount of uncertainty in the distribution of lightness across various environments, the perceptual and memory systems for lightness, and the distribution of lightness terms in English language. The entropy is then used to calculate the amount of information […]
Color Naming Reflects Optimal Partitions of Color Space – Regier, Kay & Khetarpal (2006) Use data from pre-industrial societies on color naming systems to argue that naming systems reflect locally optimal divisions of the color space based on the number of color words. Optimality is measured as the degree to witch a category includes similar […]