We tested an embodied account of language proposing that comprehenders create
perceptual simulations of the events they hear and read about. In Experiment 1, children …

Embodied theories of language comprehension propose that readers construct a mental
simulation of described objects that contains perceptual characteristics of their real-world …

The primary purpose of the present study was to determine whether recent findings
documenting the benefits of text-related motor activity on young children's memory for …

Reading comprehension, much like comprehension of situations and comprehension of oral
language, is embodied. In all cases, comprehension is the ability to take effective action on …

In a first study, we considered whether modelling and the type of an adult's request
influenced children's ability at 1; 8 and 2; 2 to comprehend gestures and replica objects as …

The present experiment tested the hypothesis that development of syntactic comprehension
through verbal modeling is enhanced by referent concreteness as a contextual influence …

The mechanisms underlying developmental transitions in sentence processing are not well
understood. Eyetracking research demonstrates that five-year-olds do not use visual scene …

Abstract We examined 4-and 9-year-old′ s referential comprehension when given pointing
gestures and spoken labels, in two types of contextually ambiguous situations. In one …

Research during the past decade has revealed a wide range of strategies used by adults
and children to comprehend what they read. For example, researchers using think-aloud …

Illustrations are a salient source of information in children's books, yet their effect on
children's reading comprehension has been studied only through literal factual recall. The …