A5020351194- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Media Influence and Health
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Topic Modeling
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2016-2025
Queensland University of Technology
2022
Utrecht University
1990-2014
Florida State University
1998-2008
Florida Department of State
2003
University of Memphis
1993
Leiden University
1989-1991
In this article, we propose and test a model of how readers construct representations the situations described in simple narratives event-indexing According to model, events are focal points conveyed connected memory along five dimensions time, space, protagonist, causality, intentionality The results verb-clustering task provide strong support for
We examined the prediction that people activate perceptual symbols during language comprehension. Subjects read sentences describing an animal or object in a certain location. The shape of changed as function its location (e.g., eagle sky, nest). However, this change was only implied by sentences. After reading sentence, subjects were presented with line drawing question. They judged whether had been mentioned sentence (Experiment 1) simply named 2). In both cases, responses faster when...
Perceptual symbol systems assume an analogue relationship between a and its referent, whereas amodal arbitrary referent. According to perceptual theories, the complete representation of object, called simulation, should reflect physical characteristics object. Amodal in contrast, do not make this prediction. We tested hypothesis, derived from that people mentally represent orientation object implied by verbal description. Orientation (vertical-horizontal) was manipulated having participants...
Observing actions and understanding sentences about activates corresponding motor processes in the observer-comprehender.In 5 experiments, authors addressed 2 novel questions regarding language-based resonance.The 1st question asks whether visual motion that is associated with an action produces resonance sentence comprehension.The 2nd modulated during authors' experiments provide affirmative response to both questions.A rotating stimulus affects actual manual rotation comprehension of...
The field of discourse processing has dissected many the levels representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected discourse. These include surface code, propositional textbase, referential situation model, communication context, and genre. Discourse psychologists have developed models specify how these mentally represented they dynamically built during comprehension. This chapter focuses on meaning representations adults written text, such as literary stories,...
We discuss the authors' conceptualization of replication, in particular false dichotomy direct versus conceptual replication intrinsic to it, and suggest a broader one that better generalizes other domains psychological research. also their approach evaluation results moving beyond dichotomous statistical paradigms employing hierarchical / meta-analytic models.
We investigated the question of whether comprehenders mentally simulate a described situation even when this is explicitly negated in sentence. In two experiments, participants read negative sentences such as There was no eagle sky, and subsequently responded to pictures mentioned entities context recognition task. Participants' responses following were faster depicted entity matched rather than mismatched situation. These results suggest that processing The thereby provide further support...
Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability it later. However, after watching a video of simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally described the robber were 25% worse at identifying in lineup than instead listed U.S. states and capitals—this has been termed “verbal overshadowing” effect (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990). More recent studies suggested that this might be substantially smaller first reported. Given uncertainty about size, influence finding...
Abstract The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of the role motor activity in comprehension language. Participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences by producing movements toward body or away from body. ACE finding that faster when direction movement (e.g., ) matches action to-be-judged sentence Art gave you pen describes you). We report pre-registered, multi-lab replication one version ACE. results show none 18 labs involved study...
This study examined how the chronological distance between 2 consecutively narrated story events affects on-line comprehension and mental representation of these events. College students read short narrative passages from a computer screen responded to recognition probes. The results 4 experiments consistently demonstrated that readers used temporal information construct situation models while comprehending narratives. First, sentence reading times increased when there was time shift (e.g.,...