Imagine, and you will find–Lack of attentional guidance through visual imagery in aphantasics

M Monzel, K Keidel, M Reuter - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021 - Springer
Aphantasia is the condition of reduced or absent voluntary imagery. So far, behavioural
differences between aphantasics and non-aphantasics have hardly been studied as the …

ViSpa (Vision Spaces): A computer-vision-based representation system for individual images and concept prototypes, with large-scale evaluation.

F Günther, M Marelli, S Tureski, MA Petilli - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Quantitative, data-driven models for mental representations have long enjoyed popularity
and success in psychology (eg, distributional semantic models in the language domain), but …

[HTML][HTML] Embodied processing at six linguistic granularity levels: A consensus paper

A Körner, M Castillo, L Drijvers, MH Fischer… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Language processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review
behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across …

Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences

AM Borghi, A Osińska, A Roepstorff… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This theme issue aims to view the literature on concepts through a novel lens, that of social
interaction and its influence on inner experiences. It discusses unsolved problems in …

Out-of-vocabulary but not meaningless: Evidence for semantic-priming effects in pseudoword processing.

D Gatti, M Marelli, L Rinaldi - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Nonarbitrary phenomena in language, such as systematic association in the form–meaning
interface, have been widely reported in the literature. Exploiting such systematic …

A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning

AG de Varda, C Strapparava - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The present paper addresses the study of non‐arbitrariness in language within a deep
learning framework. We present a set of experiments aimed at assessing the pervasiveness …

Language with vision: A study on grounded word and sentence embeddings

H Shahmohammadi, M Heitmeier… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Grounding language in vision is an active field of research seeking to construct cognitively
plausible word and sentence representations by incorporating perceptual knowledge from …

Are there unconscious visual images in aphantasia? Development of an implicit priming paradigm

R Purkart, M Delem, V Ranson, C Andrey, R Versace… - Cognition, 2025 - Elsevier
For some people the experience of visual imagery is lacking, a condition recently referred to
as aphantasia. So far, most of the studies on aphantasia rely on subjective reports, leaving …

The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: Extrapolating affective values for 38,000+ Chinese words via a computational model

T Wang, X Xu - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Word affective ratings are important tools in psycholinguistic research, natural language
processing, and many other fields. However, even for well-studied languages, such norms …

[HTML][HTML] Visual intuitions in the absence of visual experience: the role of direct experience in concreteness and imageability judgements

MA Petilli, M Marelli - Journal of Cognition, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The strongest formulations of grounded cognition assume that perceptual intuitions about
concepts involve the re-activation of sensorimotor experience we have made with their …