How the human mind makes use of contraries in everyday life: A new multidimensional approach to contraries in perception, language, reasoning and emotions

Paradis, Carita (PI)
Savardi, Ugo (PI)
Bianchi, Ivana (PI)
Burro, Roberto (PI)
Ball, Linden (PI)
Bertamini, Marco (PI)
Kubovy, Michael (PI)
Giora, Rachel (PI)
Verstegen, Ian (PI)
van de Weijer, Joost (PI)
Farshchi, Sara (Researcher)

Project: Research

Popular science description

Contraries are pervasive in our perceptual experience of the world, our emotions, our system of classification, our reasoning processes and in language. What lies behind this? Are we dealing with a really basic cognitive structure? Through various kinds of experiments, this project studies the invariant structures of opposition as they emerge from various different cognitive functions and consider

Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	2015/10/19 → 2023/10/18

Collaborative partners

Lund University (lead)
University of Central Lancashire
University of Liverpool
University of Macerata
University of Virginia
University of Verona
University of Pennsylvania

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Social Sciences
Humanities and the Arts

Free keywords

percepetion
cognition
reasoning
language

4 Article
2 Abstract
1 Book chapter

Identification of opposites and intermediates by eye and by hand
Bianchi, I., Paradis, C., Burro, R., van de Weijer, J., Nyström, M. & Savardi, U., 2017 Oct, In: Acta Psychologica. 180, p. 175-189
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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Processing negation in a miniature artificial language
Farshchi, S., Paradis, C. & Andersson, R., 2017 Apr 27.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

Open Access
File

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Are all opposites equal? If not, why not?
Paradis, C. & van de Weijer, J., 2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

Language Acquisition
Graziano, M. (PI), Andersson, A. (Researcher), Andrén, M. (Researcher), Gullberg, M. (Researcher), Hult, F. (Researcher), Lenninger, S. (Researcher), Platzack, C. (Researcher), Schlyter, S. (Researcher), Smidfelt, L. (Researcher), Son, V. T. (Researcher), Suhonen, L.-V. (Researcher), Bernardini, P. (Researcher), Colonna Dahlman, R. (Researcher), Debreslioska, S. (Researcher), Flyman Mattsson, A. (Researcher), Granfelt, J. (Researcher), Gunnarsson, T. (Researcher), Gyllstad, H. (Researcher), Holm, L. (Researcher), Håkansson, G. (Researcher), Johansson, V. (Researcher), Källkvist, M. (Researcher), Molnar, V. (Researcher), Schamp-Bjerede, T. (Researcher), Splendido, F. (Researcher), Zlatev, J. (Researcher), van de Weijer, J. (Researcher) & Ågren, M. (Researcher)
2013/09/10 → 2020/12/31
Project: Network

Sara Farshchi
Paradis, C. (First/primary/lead supervisor), Andersson, R. (Joint second supervisor), Andersson, A. (Joint second supervisor) & van de Weijer, J. (Joint second supervisor)
2015 → 2019
Activity: Examination and supervision › Supervision of PhD students

How the human mind makes use of contraries in everyday life: A new multidimensional approach to contraries in perception, language, reasoning and emotions

Project Details

Popular science description

Collaborative partners

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Free keywords

Research output

Identification of opposites and intermediates by eye and by hand

Processing negation in a miniature artificial language

Are all opposites equal? If not, why not?

Projects

Language Acquisition

Activities

Sara Farshchi