Language and Perception

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Two-year-olds will name artifacts by their functions. (2000, result): “though Smith et al. (1996) conclude that names recruit attention to appearances, other studies seem to suggest -to the contrary-that names promote conceptual processing by young children (e.”
The role of theories in conceptual coherence. (1985, unknown): “The notion that people's concepts are tied up with their theories is not totally new to psychology (note the earlier discussion of Miller & Johnson-Laird, 1976).”
What is the explanatory value of a conceptual metaphor (2007, background): “This claim derives from the rhetoric of ‘‘cognitive economy’’ (Miller and Johnson-Laird, 1976), according to which the mind borrows the semantic structure of simple concepts to organize aspects of complex concepts that might be too computationally expensive to represent in a stand-alone fashion.”
Some Demonstrations of the Effects of Structural Descriptions in Mental Imagery (1979, unknown): “…systems, it seems sensible to use a system of three mutually perpendicular directions, and natural language supports this inclination by providing the terms top/bottom, front/back, and left/right, all of which can be used to refer to as object's intrinsic directions (Miller & Johnson-Laird, 1976).”