- E-postAndrea.Bender@uib.no
- Telefon+47 55 58 90 81
- BesøksadresseChristies gate 125015 Bergen
- PostadressePostboks 78075020 Bergen
Hovedsakelig forsker jeg på sammenhengen mellom – og koevolusjonen av – kognisjon, språk, og kultur. Interessene mine strekker seg fra konseptuelle systemer til grunnleggende prosesser, med fokus på representasjon av tall, rom- og tidsrelaterte referanser, kausal kognisjon, eller den mulige virkningen som ulike lingvistiske kategorier (som grammatisk kjønn) kan ha på hvordan vi tenker. Forskningsmetodene som jeg bruker, omfatter blant annet konseptuelle analyser, etnografi (spesielt i det polynesiske kongeriket Tonga), og tverrkulturelle/tverrspråklige sammenligninger, samt kognitive og psykolingvistiske eksperimenter.
Mer utfyllende informasjon finnes på den engelske siden.
Medieoppslag (utvalg)
Evolusjon av tallsystemer (Beller & Bender, 2008)
- ScienceNOW: Evolution of counting is no simple operation (Elsa Youngsteadt, 11.1.2008)
- Daily Telegraph (London): Modern texters scooped 3,000 years ago ;-) (Roger Highfield, 15.1.2008)
- Zeit online: Die Urahnen des Sixpack (Stefan Nickels, 11.1.2008)
Fingertelling (Bender & Beller, 2012)
- Guardian: What does the way you count on your fingers say about your brain? (Corrinne Burns, 26.6.2012)
Mangarevan binærtelling (Bender & Beller, 2014)
- ScienceNOW: Polynesians may have invented binary math (John Bohannan, 16.12.2013)
- Nature: Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago (Philip Ball, 16.12.2013)
- New Scientist: Early Polynesians used binary to ease mental arithmetic (Jacob Aron, 16.12.2013)
- Pour la Science: Un système de calcul original en Polynésie (Sean Bailly, 20.12.2013)
- forskning.no, the Nordic countries’ largest online news service: Øyfolk fant opp binærtall (Ingrid Spilde, 24.12.2013)
- Spiegel: Polynesische Mathematik: Die Rechengenies von Mangareva (Holger Dambeck, 27.12.2013)
"Die Welt des Denkens" (Bender & Beller, 2013)
- Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition around the world (Barbara Götsch, 2014)
Undervisning
- Introduction to the Cognitive Sciences (KOGVIT101)
- Perspektiv i psykologisk vitskap (MAPSYK301)
- Kognitiv psykologi (PROPSY305, PSYCH305A, PSYCH305B)
- Videregåande tema i kognitiv psykologi (MAPSYK317)
- Forskingsperspektiv innanfor sosial- og kognitiv psykologi (MAPSYK304)
- Research design, methods, ethics and philosophy of science (PS901)
Emneansvarlig
- Videregåande tema i kognitiv psykologi (MAPSYK317)
- Forskingsperspektiv innanfor sosial- og kognitiv psykologi (MAPSYK304)
- Masteroppgåve i psykologi (MAPSYK330 og MAPSYK360)
see English page for the full publication list.
- (2023). The Dual Role of Culture for Reconstructing Early Sapiens Cognition. Psychological review. 25 sider.
- (2023). Mushrooms as 'food for thought': Cognitive science perspectives on fungi. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
- (2021). Ways of counting in Micronesia. Historia Mathematica. 40-72.
- (2021). The perception of quantity ain’t number: Missing the primacy of symbolic reference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. e199.
- (2021). Knowledge is belief – and shaped by culture. . Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 20-22.
- (2021). A scientific marketplace. Topics in Cognitive Science. 6-9.
- (2020). What is causal cognition? Frontiers in Psychology. 1-6.
- (2020). What early sapience cognition can teach us: Untangling cultural influences on human cognition across time. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-6.
- (2020). The sense of obligation is culturally modulated. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16-17.
- (2020). Being in front is good—but where is in front? Preferences for spatial referencing affect evaluation. Cognitive Science. 20 sider.
- (2019). What processes sparked off symbolic representations? A reply to Hodgson and an alternative perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 1-8.
- (2019). The value of diversity in cognitive science . Topics in Cognitive Science. 853-863.
- (2019). The role of culture and evolution for human cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science. 18 sider.
- (2019). The distinct roles of theory of mind and shared intentionality for the emergence of culture. Current Anthropology. 182-183.
- (2019). The cultural fabric of human causal cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 922-940.
- (2019). Flexibility in adopting relative frames of reference in dorsal and lateral settings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (QJEP). 2393-2407.
- (2018). Variability in the alignment of number and space across languages and tasks. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-19.
- (2018). The Cultural Challenge in Mathematical Cognition. Journal of Numerical Cognition. 448-463.
- (2018). Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition. 1580-1608.
- (2017). Wie Sprache und Kultur unser Denken beeinflussen. Nova Acta Leopoldina. 61-80.
- (2017). Theory, the Final Frontier? A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Role of Theory in Psychological Articles. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-16.
- (2017). The power of 2: How an apparently irregular numeration system facilitates mental arithmetic. Cognitive Science. 158-187.
- (2017). Agents and patients in physical settings: Linguistic cues affect the assignment of causality in German and Tongan. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-16.
- (2016). Probing the cultural constitution of causal cognition – a research program. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-6.
- (2016). Perspective taking in referring to objects behind versus in front of an observer: Frames of reference, intraindividual consistency, and response latencies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (QJEP). 1384-1408.
- (2016). Lady Liberty and Godfather Death as candidates for linguistic relativity? Scrutinizing the gender congruency effect on personified allegories with explicit and implicit measures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (QJEP). 48-64.
- (2016). Die sozio-kulturelle Matrix menschlicher Wahrnehmung. Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie. 51-58.
- (2016). Current perspectives on cognitive diversity. Frontiers in Psychology. 7 sider.
- (2016). Crossing grammar and biology for gender categorisations: investigating the gender congruency effect in generic nouns for animates. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 530-558.
- (2015). Turn around to have a look? Spatial referencing in dorsal versus frontal settings in cross-linguistic comparison. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-17.
- (2015). The cognitive advantages of counting specifically: A representational analysis of verbal numeration systems in Oceanic languages. Topics in Cognitive Science. 552-569.
- (2015). Temporal frames of reference in three Germanic languages: Individual consistency, interindividual consensus, and cross-linguistic variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (QJEP). 917-939.
- (2015). How contrast situations affect the assignment of causality in symmetric physical settings. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-10.
- (2015). Exploring cognitive diversity: Anthropological perspectives on cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science. 548-551.
- (2015). Diversity as asset. Topics in Cognitive Science. 677-688.
- (2015). Culture or language: what drives effects of grammatical gender? Cognitive Linguistics. 331-359.
- (2015). Causal inferences about others' behavior among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea - and why they are hard to elicit. Frontiers in Psychology.
- (2015). (Co-)evolution of numerical cognition and its tools. [Comment on “Numerosity structures the expression of quantity in lexical numbers and grammatical number”]. Current Anthropology. 645-646.
- (2014). Mapping spatial frames of reference onto time: A review of theoretical accounts and empirical findings. Cognition. 342-382.
- (2014). Mangarevan invention of binary steps for easier calculation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1322-1327.
- (2013). Two accounts of traditional Mangarevan counting … and how to evaluate them. The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 275-287.
- (2023). What makes a mushroom poisonous? Cultural impacts on the evolution of knowledge.
- (2023). The role of mushrooms for cultural and cognitive evolution.
- (2023). How and why appraisals of mushroom edibility change over time.
- (2022). What makes a mushroom poisonous? The role of knowledge and trust in cultural evolution.
- (2022). Diversity and synergy in cognitive science.
- (2022). Cross-cultural comparative research on cognitive evolution.
- (2022). Coding of numeral systems.
- (2022). "Is this edible anyway?" The impact of culture on the evolution (and devolution) of mushroom knowledge.
- (2021). When, how and why did symbolic practices emerge and become more complex?
- (2021). The dual role of culture for (early) human cognition.
- (2021). Large numbers on small islands: Micronesian ways of counting.
- (2021). Cognitive tools for counting.
- (2020). Unravelling past cognition: Approaches across disciplines.
- (2020). The value of diversity in cognitive science.
- (2020). Representing time in terms of space: Directions of mental timelines in five different languages .
- (2019). Relative evaluation of location: How spatial frames of reference affect what we value .
- (2019). Reconstructing Early Sapiens Cognition.
- (2019). Cultural differences in the spatial grounding of temporal representations.
- (2018). Numeral Systems as Cultural Tools.
- (2017). Anthropological Contributions to Cognitive Science.
- (2022). Toward Greater Integration: Fellows Perspectives on Cognitive Science. Topics in Cognitive Science. 6-13.
- (2017). Editorial: Diversity and universality in causal cognition. Frontiers in Psychology. 1-3.
- (2013). Of adding oranges and apples: how non-abstract representations may foster abstract numerical cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
- (2015). The mutual challenge of anthropology and cognitive science. Social Anthropology. 199-200.
- (2017). Diversity and universality in causal cognition. Frontiers Media S.A..
- (2019). Relative Evaluation of Location : How Spatial Frames of Reference Affect What We Value . 6 sider.
- (2019). Language and thought. 21 sider.
- (2018). Sprache. 63 sider.
- (2018). Speech act of promising across cultures. 9 sider.
- (2018). Numeration systems as cultural tools for numerical cognition. 24 sider.
- (2018). Ethnomathematics and numerical cognition. 10 sider.
- (2018). Cognition, causal. 10 sider.
- (2018). Cognition and emotion. 11 sider.
- (2017). Representing time in terms of space: Directions of mental timelines in Norwegian. 6 sider.
- (2017). Number systems in Oceania: The cultural evolution of a cognitive tool. 21 sider.
- (2017). How relative is the relative frame of reference? Front and back in Norwegian, Farsi, German, and Japanese. 6 sider.
- (2017). Commentary on "Early emergence of quantitative knowledge: Implications for educational practice" by D. C. Geary. 94 sider.
- (2017). Causal cognition and culture. 22 sider.
- (2013). Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie / Kognitionsethnologie. 7 sider.
- (2020). Cognition and cognitive science. 1-11. I:
- (2020). The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology.
- (2023). The different paths to cultural convergence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- (2020). Editors’ review and introduction: The cultural evolution of cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science. 644-653.
see English page for current projects.
see English page for a brief CV.