Eighty‐two participants listened to sentences and then judged whether two sequentially
presented visual objects were the same. On critical trials, participants heard a sentence …

Theories typically emphasize affordances or intentions as the primary determinant of an
object's perceived function. The HIPE theory assumes that people integrate both into causal …

Various lines of research on language have converged on the premise that linguistic
knowledge has as its basic unit pairings of form and meaning. The precise nature of the …

This study explored the representation that readers construct when advancing through the
description of an unfolding occurrence. In 3 experiments, participants read narratives …

An experiment was conducted to examine whether perceptual information, specifically the
shape of objects, is activated during semantic processing. Subjects judged whether a target …

Based on the theory of conceptual metaphor we investigated the evaluative consequences
of a match (or mismatch) of different conceptual relations (good vs. bad; abstract vs …

The human body is designed to interact with its environment. Information from all sensory
modalities is integrated to allow for navigation and decision making. Developing theories of …

This study explored the representation that readers construct when advancing through the
description of an unfolding occurrence. In 3 experiments, participants read narratives …

The domain of spatial language is an ideal testing ground for proposals addressing the
representational gap between perceptual-motor and language systems precisely because it …