One Label or Two? Linguistic Influences on the Similarity Judgment of Objects between English and Japanese Speakers.

ABSTRACT: Recent findings have re-examined the linguistic influence on cognition and perception, while identifying evidence that supports the Whorfian hypothesis. We examine how English and Japanese speakers perceive similarity of pairs of objects, by using two sets of stimuli: one in which two distinct linguistic categories apply to respective object images in English, but only one linguistic category applies in Japanese; and another in which two distinct linguistic categories apply to respective object images in Japanese, but only one applies in English. We conducted four studies and tested different groups of participants in each of them. In Study 1, we asked participants to name the two objects before engaging in the similarity judgment task. Here, we expected a strong linguistic effect. In Stud

SUBMITTER: Masuda T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623002 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature