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)

 

Sammendrag/abstract

• Papa, Aliki; Bender, Andrea; Colombo, Matteo et al. (2024). From Fungi to Thought: Exploring Cognition in Mushroom Foraging.. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

• Bender, Andrea; Oterhals, Åge (2024). Relying on Grandma’s Mushrooms: How Cultural Models Affect Appraisals of Edibility. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2019). Language and thought.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah; Rothe-Wulf, Annelie et al. (2019). Relative Evaluation of Location : How Spatial Frames of Reference Affect What We Value . (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2018). Numeration systems as cultural tools for numerical cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2018). Cognition and emotion. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2018). Ethnomathematics and numerical cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2018). Sprache. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2018). Cognition, causal. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2018). Speech act of promising across cultures. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2017). How relative is the relative frame of reference? Front and back in Norwegian, Farsi, German, and Japanese. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2017). Commentary on "Early emergence of quantitative knowledge: Implications for educational practice" by D. C. Geary.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Medin, Douglas L. (2017). Causal cognition and culture. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2017). Number systems in Oceania: The cultural evolution of a cognitive tool. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Sjåfjell, Kristin; Rothe-Wulf, Annelie et al. (2017). Representing time in terms of space: Directions of mental timelines in Norwegian. (ekstern lenke)
• Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt; Bender, Andrea (2013). Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie / Kognitionsethnologie. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Bender, Andrea; Mendoza Straffon, Larissa; Gatewood, John B. et al. (2023). The Dual Role of Culture for Reconstructing Early Sapiens Cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Papa, Aliki; Bender, Andrea (2023). Mushrooms as 'food for thought': Cognitive science perspectives on fungi.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2021). Ways of counting in Micronesia. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Gatewood, John B. (2021). Knowledge is belief – and shaped by culture. . (ekstern lenke)
• Núñez, Rafael; d'Errico, Francesco; Gray, Russell D. et al. (2021). The perception of quantity ain’t number: Missing the primacy of symbolic reference. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2021). A scientific marketplace. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2020). The sense of obligation is culturally modulated. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2020). What early sapience cognition can teach us: Untangling cultural influences on human cognition across time. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah; Rothe-Wulf, Annelie et al. (2020). Being in front is good—but where is in front? Preferences for spatial referencing affect evaluation.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2020). What is causal cognition?. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2019). The role of culture and evolution for human cognition.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2019). The cultural fabric of human causal cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2019). The value of diversity in cognitive science . (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2019). The distinct roles of theory of mind and shared intentionality for the emergence of culture. (ekstern lenke)
• Wilke, Fiona; Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2019). Flexibility in adopting relative frames of reference in dorsal and lateral settings.. (ekstern lenke)
• Mellet, Emmanuel; Colagè, Ivan; Bender, Andrea et al. (2019). What processes sparked off symbolic representations? A reply to Hodgson and an alternative perspective. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Klauer, Karl Christoph (2018). Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea; Chrisomalis, Stephen et al. (2018). The Cultural Challenge in Mathematical Cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Rothe-Wulf, Annelie; Beller, Sieghard (2018). Variability in the alignment of number and space across languages and tasks. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2017). Wie Sprache und Kultur unser Denken beeinflussen. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2017). The power of 2: How an apparently irregular numeration system facilitates mental arithmetic. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2017). Theory, the Final Frontier? A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Role of Theory in Psychological Articles. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2017). Agents and patients in physical settings: Linguistic cues affect the assignment of causality in German and Tongan. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Klauer, Karl Christoph (2016). Lady Liberty and Godfather Death as candidates for linguistic relativity? Scrutinizing the gender congruency effect on personified allegories with explicit and implicit measures. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Hanus, Daniel (2016). Die sozio-kulturelle Matrix menschlicher Wahrnehmung.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2016). Probing the cultural constitution of causal cognition – a research program. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2016). Current perspectives on cognitive diversity. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bohlen, Judith; Hüther, Lisa et al. (2016). Perspective taking in referring to objects behind versus in front of an observer: Frames of reference, intraindividual consistency, and response latencies. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Klauer, Karl Christoph (2016). Crossing grammar and biology for gender categorisations: investigating the gender congruency effect in generic nouns for animates. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Nersessian, Nancy J. (2015). Diversity as asset. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2015). Exploring cognitive diversity: Anthropological perspectives on cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Schlimm, Dirk; Beller, Sieghard (2015). The cognitive advantages of counting specifically: A representational analysis of verbal numeration systems in Oceanic languages. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2015). How contrast situations affect the assignment of causality in symmetric physical settings. (ekstern lenke)
• Rothe-Wulf, Annelie; Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea (2015). Temporal frames of reference in three Germanic languages: Individual consistency, interindividual consensus, and cross-linguistic variability. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2015). (Co-)evolution of numerical cognition and its tools. [Comment on “Numerosity structures the expression of quantity in lexical numbers and grammatical number”]. (ekstern lenke)
• Beer, Bettina; Bender, Andrea (2015). Causal inferences about others' behavior among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea - and why they are hard to elicit. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Singmann, Henrik; Hüther, Lisa et al. (2015). Turn around to have a look? Spatial referencing in dorsal versus frontal settings in cross-linguistic comparison. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Brattebø, Karen Fadnes; Lavik, Kristina Osland et al. (2015). Culture or language: what drives effects of grammatical gender?. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2014). Mapping spatial frames of reference onto time: A review of theoretical accounts and empirical findings. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2014). Mangarevan invention of binary steps for easier calculation. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2013). Two accounts of traditional Mangarevan counting … and how to evaluate them. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig foredrag

• Bender, Andrea; Oterhals, Åge (2023). What makes a mushroom poisonous? Cultural impacts on the evolution of knowledge. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2023). The role of mushrooms for cultural and cognitive evolution. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Wolff, Katharina; Oterhals, Åge (2023). How and why appraisals of mushroom edibility change over time. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Oterhals, Åge (2022). What makes a mushroom poisonous? The role of knowledge and trust in cultural evolution.. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2022). Diversity and synergy in cognitive science. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2022). Cross-cultural comparative research on cognitive evolution. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2022). Coding of numeral systems. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Oterhals, Åge (2022). "Is this edible anyway?" The impact of culture on the evolution (and devolution) of mushroom knowledge. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Straffon, Larissa Mendoza; Beller, Sieghard (2021). The dual role of culture for (early) human cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2021). Cognitive tools for counting. (ekstern lenke)
• d'Errico, Francesco; Colagé, Ivan; Straffon, Larissa Mendoza et al. (2021). When, how and why did symbolic practices emerge and become more complex?. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2021). Large numbers on small islands: Micronesian ways of counting. (ekstern lenke)
• Mendoza Straffon, Larissa; Bender, Andrea (2020). Unravelling past cognition: Approaches across disciplines. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Rothe-Wulff, Annelie (2020). Representing time in terms of space: Directions of mental timelines in five different languages . (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2020). The value of diversity in cognitive science. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Teige-Mocigemba, Sarah; Rothe-Wulf, Annelie et al. (2019). Relative evaluation of location: How spatial frames of reference affect what we value . (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2019). Cultural differences in the spatial grounding of temporal representations. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2019). Reconstructing Early Sapiens Cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea (2018). Numeral Systems as Cultural Tools. (ekstern lenke)
• Solberg, Mads; Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard et al. (2017). Anthropological Contributions to Cognitive Science. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review

• Mendoza Straffon, Larissa; Papa, Aliki; Øhrn, Heidi et al. (2023). The different paths to cultural convergence. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea; Jordan, Fiona (2020). Editors’ review and introduction: The cultural evolution of cognition. (ekstern lenke)

Leder

• Bender, Andrea (2022). Toward Greater Integration: Fellows Perspectives on Cognitive Science. (ekstern lenke)
• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea; Waldmann, Michael R. (2017). Editorial: Diversity and universality in causal cognition. (ekstern lenke)
• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2013). Of adding oranges and apples: how non-abstract representations may foster abstract numerical cognition. (ekstern lenke)

Leksikonartikkel

• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2020). Cognition and cognitive science.. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

• Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea; Waldmann, Michael R. (2017). Diversity and universality in causal cognition.. (ekstern lenke)

Anmeldelse

• Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard (2015). The mutual challenge of anthropology and cognitive science. (ekstern lenke)

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