A5003814468- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Language and cultural evolution
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Topic Modeling
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
- AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Lancaster University
2016-2025
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
2019-2024
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2020-2023
Cornell University
2023
Ghent University Hospital
2019
University of Canterbury
2019
Brunel University of London
2019
University College Dublin
2003-2019
Ghent University
2019
Google (United States)
2018
Abstract Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in cognition. However, the existing materials that measure sensorimotor basis of word meanings and concepts have been restricted terms their sample size breadth experience. Here we present norms strength for 39,707 across six perceptual modalities (touch, hearing, smell, taste, vision, interoception) five action effectors (mouth/throat, hand/arm, foot/leg, head excluding mouth/throat, torso), gathered from total 3,500 individual...
Conceptual representations are perceptually grounded, but when investigating which perceptual modalities involved, researchers have typically restricted their consideration to vision, touch, hearing, taste and smell. However, there is another major modality of information that distinct from these traditional five senses; is, interoception, or sensations inside the body. In this paper, we use megastudy data (modality-specific ratings strength for over 32 000 words) explore how interoceptive...
Previous studies have shown that object properties are processed faster when they follow from the same perceptual modality than different modalities. These findings suggest language activates sensorimotor processes, which, according to those studies, can only be explained by a modal account of cognition. The current paper shows how statistical linguistic approach word co-occurrences also reliably predict category belongs (auditory, olfactory-gustatory, visual-haptic), even though is less...
As embodied theories of cognition are increasingly formalized and tested, care must be taken to make informed assumptions regarding the nature concepts representations. In this study, we outline three reasons why one cannot, in effect, represent same concept twice. First, online perception affects offline representation: Current representational content depends on how ongoing demands direct attention modality-specific systems. Second, language is a fundamental facilitator Bootstrapping...
We report the results of three high-powered, independent replications Study 2 from Williams and Bargh (2008) . Participants evaluated hot or cold instant therapeutic packs before choosing a reward for participation that was framed as prosocial (i.e., treat friend) self-interested self). predicted evaluating pack would lead to higher probability making choice compared pack. did not replicate effect in any individual laboratory when considering together (total N = 861). conclude there is no...
Conceptual combination research investigates the processes involved in creating new meaning from old referents. It is therefore essential that embodied theories of cognition are able to explain this constructive ability and predict resultant behavior. However, by failing take an or grounded view conceptual system, existing cannot account for role perceptual, motor, affective information combination. In present paper, we propose (ECCo) model address oversight. ECCo, result interaction...
How does the meaning of a word affect how quickly we can recognize it? Accounts visual recognition allow semantic information to facilitate performance but have neglected role modality-specific perceptual attention in activating meaning. We predicted that would differentially lexical decision and reading aloud, depending on is implicitly directed by each task. Large-scale regression analyses showed modalities involved representing word's referent concept influence easily recognized. Both...
How does language affect cognition? Is it important that most of our concepts come with linguistic labels, such as car or number? The statistical distributions how labels co-occur in offers a rich medium associative information can support conceptual processing number ways. In this article, I argue the role goes far beyond mere support, and is fundamental intrinsic part sensorimotor-affective simulations. particular, because association tends to be computationally cheaper than simulation...
The distributional pattern of words in language forms the basis linguistic knowledge and contributes to conceptual processing, yet many questions remain regarding its role cognition. We propose that corpus-based models can represent a cognitively plausible approach understanding when assumed an essential component semantics, trained on corpora representative human experience, they capture diverse relations are useful Using extensive set cognitive tasks vary complexity processing required, we...
Semantic categories, and the concepts belonging to them, have commonly been defined by their relative concreteness, that is, reliance on perception. However, sensorimotor grounding must be regarded as going beyond basic five senses incorporate a multi-dimensional variety of perceptual action experience. We present series exploratory analyses examining participant-produced member for 117 spanning concrete (e.g. animal furniture ) highly abstract unit time science categories. found both...
Tulving (1972) characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical conceptual knowledge galvanized new era research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods terminology. For example, ‘concept’ has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, psychology. As such, fundamental constructs used to delineate theories remain underspecified and/or opaque. Weak construct...
Plausibility has been implicated as playing a critical role in many cognitive phenomena from comprehension to problem solving. Yet, across science, plausibility is usually treated an operationalized variable or metric rather than being explained studied itself. This article describes new model of plausibility, the Analysis Model (PAM), which aimed at modeling human judgment. uses commonsense knowledge concept-coherence determine degree target scenario. In essence, highly plausible scenario...
Abstract Theories of embodied cognition hold that the conceptual system uses perceptual simulations for purposes representation. A strong prediction is phenomena should emerge in processing, and, support, previous research has shown switching modalities from one trial to next incurs a processing cost during tasks. However, date, such been limited by its reliance on retrieval familiar concepts. We therefore examined concept creation asking participants interpret modality‐specific compound...
Perceptual simulations are unconscious and automatic, whereas perceptual imagery is conscious deliberate, but it unclear how easily one can transfer information from to awareness.We investigated whether possible be aware of what mentally representing; that is, consciously examine the contents a simulation without being lost.Studies 1 2 found people cannot accurately evaluate content representation unless attention explicitly drawn each modality individually.In particular, when asked consider...
Theories of embodied cognition suggest that conceptual processing relies on the same neural resources are utilized for perception and action. Evidence these perceptual simulations comes from neuroimaging behavioural research, such as demonstrations somatotopic motor cortex activations following presentation action-related words, or facilitation grasp responses object names. However, interpretation effects has been called into question by suggestions activation in modality-specific...