Bojana Coso

• dr. sc. Cognitive science I Psychologist
• Independent scientist

Research on language attitudes has shown that speech style plays an important role in social evaluation. In Croatia, English words commonly occur in everyday communication, which could affect the way we perceive other people. This study aims to investigate the relation between English words and person perception. 200 Croatian elementary school stud...

Aims and objectives: A vast body of research has dealt with negation processing. There are many differences between negations across languages, which could influence negation processing in bilingual speakers. However, bilingual negation processing has rarely been experimentally investigated. This study aims at exploring whether highly proficient Cr...

This study presents subjective ratings for 3, 022 Croatian words, which were evaluated on two affective dimensions (valence and arousal), and one lexico- semantic variable (concreteness). A sample of 933 Croatian native speakers rated the words online. Ratings showed high reliabilities for all three variables, as well as significant correlations wi...

The present study introduces affective norms for a set of 3022 Croatian words on five discrete emotions: happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. The words were rated by 1239 Croatian native speakers. Each participant rated 251 or 252 words for one discrete emotion on a five-point Likert scale. The analyses revealed a significant relationship...

Aims and objectives English has become the dominant donor language for many languages, including Croatian. Perception of English loanwords has mainly been investigated through corpus-based studies or attitude questionnaires. At the same time, normative data for unadapted English loanwords are still mainly unavailable. This study aims to fill that g...

Aims and Objectives This study aims to investigate lexical access to unadapted English loanwords in Croatian speakers with different levels of English proficiency by exploring the effects of associative-semantic priming. It is expected that associative-semantic relatedness will have a facilitating effect on word recognition in all proficiency group...

New concepts are constantly being borrowed across languages. The influence of one language on another can occur on all linguistic levels, with lexis being the most sensitive. Croatian has become most receptive to borrowing from English, and the influence of English on Croatian has been documented in different functional styles. The prestigious stat...

English has become the dominant donor language for many languages, including Croatian. Its prestigious status reduces the likelihood of borrowed words to adapt to a recipient language. As a result, some English loanwords occur in an unadapted form. Recent computational linguistic resources have given the necessary corpus-based data on the frequency...

Negacija se može naći u svim svjetskim jezicima, a njezina je pojavnost u lingvistici dobro istražena. Psiholingvistička su istraživanja pokušala otkriti mehanizme kognitivne obrade negacije. Većina je eksperimentalnih istraživanja za ispitivanje koristila bihevioralne mjere te zadatak slaganja rečenice i slike u raznim oblicima. Prva istraživanja...

In Croatia, early exposure to English is enabled through early language learning programs as well as the media. The media plays an important role in incidental language learning. This, along with the fact that daily exposure to English is measured in hours, indicates that its status as a foreign language is changing, which offers a unique opportuni...

Dementia significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral functioning of the person, and in recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of patients suffering from dementia. In Croatia, such patients are often placed in retirement homes, non-specialized institutions for elderly and infirm, often without adequately educated employe...

Novija ispitivanja stavova o demenciji u Hrvatskoj pokazala su kako medicinsko osoblje zaposleno u domovima za starije i nemoćne osobe s odjelima za dementne osobe iskazuje nisko znanje o demenciji, dok je kod nemedicinskog osoblja ono na razini opće populacije. Ipak, kako se radi o rezultatima dobivenim na samo devet čestica na koju je moguće utje...

Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations. A picture-sentence verification task was used to investigate the processing of different types of quantifiers in Croatian: universal quantifiers in affirmative s...

Teoretska pozadina: Demencija se definira kao poremećaj kognitivnih aktivnosti koji uvelike otežava svakodnevicu, oboljelima, ali i osobama koje ih okružuju. Incidencija demencije u velikom je porastu pa potreba za educiranim osobljem postaje nezanemariva. U Hrvatskoj se danas osobe oboljele od demencije smještaju u ustanove socijalne skrbi kao što...

Univerzalno je svojstvo različitih jezika postojanje sintaktičkih formi za izražavanje niječnosti. S kognitivnoga stajališta iznimno su zanimljive dvostruke i višestruke negacije u rečenici te niječni slijed. Pojedini jezici dopuštaju, katkad i zahtijevaju upotrebu dvostrukih negacija i niječnoga slijeda u standardnome govoru, dok se kod drugih jez...

Studies from English and German languages showed differences in processing of positive and negative sentences with different quantifiers. Unlike Croatian, these languages don’t allow null quantifiers in negative concord as common grammar structure, so we wanted to test weather this type of sentence is also processed differently. Picture sentence ve...

English as a lingua franca is a part of the more general phenomenon of “English as an international language”. Its influence on other languages, Croatian being one of them, is evident across different functional styles. This study presents findings from a corpus-based qualitative and quantitative analysis of anglicisms and English words on the lexi...

Učenje i razvoj poduzetničkih kompetencija uvršteno je u strateške dokumente za razvoj obrazovanja i poduzetništva u Republici Hrvatskoj, pri čemu se nameće potreba za postojanjem cjelovitog programa učenja poduzetništva i poduzetničkih vještina od najnižih razina obrazovanja. Kreativno-edukativna škola za mlade poduzetnike KEŠ provodi se kao cjelo...

Smanjenje straha od škole i zadovoljstvo učiteljima često se ističu kao preduvjeti za postizanje boljeg obrazovnog uspjeha učenika. Subjektivni strahovi i objektivne nejasnoće utječu na motivaciju učenika za postizanjem boljih rezultata. U ispitivanju je sudjelovalo 148 učenika petog i šestog razreda osnovne škole. Ispitanici su ispunjavali upitnik...

English as a lingua franca is part of the more general phenomenon of ‘English as an international language’. Its influence on other languages, Croatian being one of them, is evident in public, political, scientific, economic, cultural and media discourse. Recent research has pointed to most frequently neglected differences between English and Croat...

The goal of this study was to compare the results via factor analysis between the data from the American and Croatian standardization, on the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). The BDI-II is a 21-item self-report instrument measuring the severity of depression in adults and adolescents. The BDI-II measures two aspects or factors of human behavi...

The aim of this article was to examine relationships of Five-factor personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness) and some job and organizational attitudes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job involvement) with various groups (musculoskeletal, pseudo neurological, gastrointestinal, a...