Universal ontology: attentive tracking of objects and substances across languages and over development

Previous research has demonstrated that adults are successful at visually tracking rigidly moving items, but experience great difficulties when tracking substance-like ‘‘pouring’’ items. Using a comparative approach, we investigated whether the presence/absence of the grammatical count–mass distinction influences adults and children’s ability to attentively track objects versus substances. More specifically, we aimed to explore whether the higher success at tracking rigid over substance-like items appears universally or whether speakers of classifier languages (like Japanese, not marking the object–substance distinction) are advantaged at tracking substances as compared to speakers of non-classifier languages (like Swiss German, marking the object–substance distinction). Our results supported the idea that language has no effect on low-level cognitive processes such as the attentive visual processing of objects and substances. We concluded arguing that the tendency to prioritize objects is universal and independent of specific characteristics of the language spoken.

The University prints. Oriental art. Series O ...

Section I. Early Indian and Indonesian art, ed. by Dr. Benjamin Rowland, jr.--Section II. Early Chinese art, ed. by L. C. S. Sickman.--Section III. Japanese art, ed. by H. G. Henderson and R. T. Paine, jr.--Section IV. Iranian and Islamic art, ed. by Richard Ettinghausen and Eric Schroeder.

Mérode Altarpiece, center panel, Annunciation: objects on table

Robert Campin, workshop of; oil on oak

A dictionary of military terms, English-Japanese, Japanese-English /

Originally published in Tokyo in 1937.

L'art du Yamato,

"La présente étude est extraite de la Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Il n'en a été tiré que 200 exemplaires numérotés a la presse. No. 58."

Description des objects d'arts qui composent le cabinet de le Baron V. Denon. Estampes et ouvrages a figures par Duchesne Ainé.

Mode of access: Internet.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Japanese swords guards,

Includes index.

Keramic art of Japan /

Bound in full red morocco with scene in gilt on front cover. Title in gilt on spine.

Exhibition of the Kevorkian collection : including objects excavated under his supervision : exhibited at the galleries of Charles of London ... New York, March-April, 1914.

Cover title: Exhibition of Muhammedan-Persian art.

Lists of paintings, drawings, and Japanese prints in the permanent collections of the Department of Fine Arts; a preliminary publication, subject to revision.

Mode of access: Internet.

A Japanese collection,

Includes essays by Michael Tomkinson, E. Gilbertson, A.H. Church, Gleeson White, W. Gowland, Charles Holme, W. Anderson, and Edward F.Strange.