Three studies were conducted to examine the relation of spatial visualization to solving
kinematics problems that involved either predicting the two‐dimensional motion of an object …

There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental
imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; …

Do we view the world differently if it is described to us in figurative rather than literal terms?
An answer to this question would reveal something about both the conceptual …

Evidence from recent experiments that monitored attention in clipart scenes during spoken
comprehension suggests that people preferably rely on non-stereotypical depicted events …

The eye independently evolved over 40 times in nature (Fernald 1997), yet, strikingly all
animals with developed visual systems actively control their gaze using eye or head …

Cultural assumptions about one's relation to others and one's place in the world can be
literally embodied in the way one cognitively maps out one's position and motion in time and …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of recent research that uses eye
movements to investigate both spoken language comprehension and language production …

The research landscape examining situation models in discourse has been transformed
considerably in the last 20 years. Van Dijk and Kintsch (1983) originally included the …

Most conceptions of episodic memory hold that reinstatement of encoding operations is
essential for retrieval success, but the specific mechanisms of retrieval reinstatement are not …

Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how
behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the …