We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Many studies have demonstrated that the sensory and motor systems are activated during
conceptual processing. Such results have been interpreted as indicating that concepts, and …

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present
as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence …

Priming or nonconscious activation of social knowledge structures has produced a plethora
of rather amazing findings over the past 25 years: priming a single social concept such as …

The dominant view in the field of lexical access in speech production maintains that
selection of a word becomes more difficult as the levels of activation of nontarget words …

Experiments 1 and 2 examined the time-course of retrieval of phonological, visual-shape
and semantic knowledge as Dutch participants listened to sentences and looked at displays …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

We used ERPs to investigate the pre-activation of form and meaning in language
comprehension. Participants read high-cloze sentence contexts (eg,“The student is going to …

Discovering the function of phenomenal states remains a formidable scientific challenge.
Research on consciously penetrable conflicts (eg," pain-for-gain" scenarios) and …

There is a growing body of evidence showing that a word's cognate status is an important
dimension affecting the naming performance of bilingual speakers. In a recent article …