🚨 New Paper at Cognitive Science! 🚨

Our latest paper (with Yue Ji and Anna Papafragou) has been accepted for publication in Cognitive Science! 📚✨

Abstract

What is the relationship between language and event cognition? Past work has suggested that linguistic/aspectual distinctions encoding the internal temporal profile of events map onto non-linguistic event representations. Here we use a novel visual detection task to directly test the hypothesis that processing telic vs. atelic sentences (e.g., “Ebony folded a napkin in 10 seconds” vs. “Ebony did some folding for 10 seconds”) can influence whether the very same visual event is processed as containing distinct temporal stages including a well-defined endpoint or lacking such structure respectively. In two experiments, we show that processing (a)telicity in language shifts how people later construe the temporal structure of identical visual stimuli. We conclude that event construals are malleable representations that can align with the linguistic framing of events.

Here it is!

• Vurgun, U., Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2024). Aspectual processing shifts visual event apprehension. Cognitive Science, 48(6), e13476. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13476