Aubrey L Gilbert’s research while affiliated with University of California, Berkeley and other places

... Semantic typology examines how the different languages of the world organize, structure and express the information in our conceptual domains (Evans, 2010;Moore et al., 2015). Some wellknown examples are the studies of kinship (Nerlove and Romney, 1967), color (Berlin and Kay, 1969;Kay et al., 2009), body parts (Brown, 1976;Enfield et al., 2006), or sense perception (Viberg, 1983;Enfield et al., 2006;Majid et al., 2018). But undoubtedly, the domain that has attracted the most attention is that of space (Pederson et al., 1998;Talmy, 2000a;Levinson, 2003;Levinson and Meira, 2003;Majid et al., 2004;Bohnemeyer et al., 2007). ...

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Temporal Expressions in English and Spanish: Influence of Typology and Metaphorical Construal

... The traditional debate on how language and thought interact is centred around two opposing views: universalism and relativism. The universalism view holds that variation between languages is limited, because languages are a product of human cognition, and the extent to which languages can vary is tied to the structure and boundaries of cognition (Regier et al., 2010). In this view, cognitive reality constrains linguistic variation. ...

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Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception

... Aphasic patients were selectively impaired on low-dimensional categorization and their selective impairment was correlated with the severity of their naming impairment, indicating, in agreement with the positions of Cohen et al. [55][56][57][58] that language impairment impacts categorization specifically when that it requires focusing attention and isolating individual features of concepts. Consistent with the same hypothesis were also results of a study in which Pauly et al. [64] tested left or right hemisphere stroke patients on a speeded color discrimination task in which two factors were manipulated: (1) the categorical relationship between the target and the distracters and (2) the visual field in which the target was presented. Similar to controls, the RH patients were faster in detecting targets in the right visual field when the target and distracters had different color names compared to when their names were the same. ...

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Is There a Causal Link between the Left Lateralization of Language and Other Brain Asymmetries? A Review of Data Gathered in Patients with Focal Brain Lesions

... If so, this would suggest the involvement of higher order cognitive processes in determining search performance in the oddball task. In fact, this possibility is supported by prior findings showing color category information facilitates oddball detection when target and distractor colors belong to different categories, compared to where they belong to the same SEARCH EFFICIENCY AND PERCEPTUAL SIMILARITY 17 category (while keeping target-distractor separation identical across conditions, see Gilbert et al., 2006, Regier & Kay, 2009, though see Brown et al., 2011 for contradicting evidence). ...

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Quantifying the Relationship Between Search Efficiency and Perceptual Similarity in Color Space Across Different Efficient Search Tasks

... These ndings provide evidence of the in uence of language on the visual cortex, a classic topic that remains highly controversial in the eld of cognitive neuroscience (see Lupyan, 2016;Thierry, 2016). Supporting cognitive evidence comes from prominent behavioural cross-linguistic studies and verbal learning experiments, which have demonstrated that verbal labels can in uence visual colour categorization (e.g., Gilbert et al., 2006;Drivonikou et al., 2007;Winawer et al., 2007). However, the robustness of these cognitive ndings has been challenged (e.g., Martinovic et al., 2020; see SI of Fedorenko et al., 2024), and even when such effects are actually observed, researchers are unable to determine whether they arise from the perceptual stages or other cognitive processes (Maier & Abdel Rahman, 2019). ...

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Language modulates vision: Evidence from neural networks and human brain-lesion models

... Irrespective of the conscious experience of inner speech, linguistic representations have been claimed to subserve various noncommunicative cognitive functions, ranging from low-level perception to higher-level abstract thinking and metacognition (for reviews, see, e.g.: Borghi & Fernyhough, 2023;Gleitman & Papafragou, 2005;Lupyan, 2016;Lupyan et al., 2020;Perszyk & Waxman, 2018). Typically, the effect of language on these aspects of cognition has been assessed either by experimentally manipulating the amount of verbal information available to participants (e.g., Baldo et al., 2005;Dils & Boroditsky, 2010;Gilbert et al., 2008;Lupyan, 2009;Maier & Abdel Rahman, 2019;Tullett & Inzlicht, 2010;Winawer et al., 2007) or by comparing the performance of language-impaired participants to that of language-unimpaired controls (e.g., Baldo et al., 2010Baldo et al., , 2015Cohen-Dallal et al., 2022;Koemeda-Lutz et al., 1987;Langland-Hassan et al., 2017Lupyan & Mirman, 2013). Much less attention has been devoted to the effects on these functions of naturally occurring individual differences in the use of inner speech. ...

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Interindividual Differences in Higher and Lower-Order Object-Related Cognition: The Role of Inner Speech