You say potato, I say tŭdòu: How speakers of different languages share the same concept

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2829-2834

  Zinszer, Benjamin D ^a   Anderson, Andrew J ^a   Kang, Olivia ^b   Wheatley, Thalia ^b   Raizada, Rajeev ^a  

^a Rochester Center for Brain Imaging   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual representation; MVPA; neural decoding; semantics

Indexed keywords

DECODING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION; ENGLISH WORD; FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES; MATCHINGS; MVPA; NEURAL DECODING; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SIMILARITY RELATIONS;

SEMANTICS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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