Speakers of a language lacking grammatical tense markers are presented with a spatial reasoning task after learning a new, artificial category. Which consequence follows regarding their task performance?

💡 Explanation

The Whorfian hypothesis suggests that language can influence thought; because spatial categories interact with novel categorization processes, lacking tense markers (typically associated with time) should influence spatial reasoning. Therefore, categorization influences spatial relational reasoning, rather than enhancements in orientation, duration encoding, or memory, which are less directly related.

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