Many studies have shown that task performance is affected by the relation between the
spatial location and the meaning of a target word. These effects have been obtained for …

Do mental simulations of perceptual information look more like high-resolution photographs
or sketchy line drawings? In the domain of language comprehension, considerable …

Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that motor simulation contributes to
the processing of idioms. A semantic interference paradigm was applied. Critically …

Until very recently, most language research has regarded linguistic phenomena as
separated from the brain and body. This could lead one into believing that in order to …

Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing
that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and …

This thesis investigates the relationship between eye movements, mental imagery and
memory retrieval in four studies based on eye-tracking experiments. The first study is an …

Recent theories on language and concepts suggest that when comprehending the
sentence, the deafening jets soared over the UCSD campus, we activate perceptual systems …

This paper explores how bidirectional and unidirectional comitative constructions are
processed at the level of argument structure. Bidirectional comitative constructions describe …