Recent theories of embodied cognition suggest new ways to look at how we process
emotional information. The theories suggest that perceiving and thinking about emotion …

Higher level cognitive processes are characteristically human. Until recently, these
processes were studied in a vacuum, separately from theaffective system, as if they were …

In this article, we discuss the hypothesis that affect is a fundamental, psychologically
irreducible property of the human mind. We begin by presenting historical perspectives on …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

There is remarkable variety in emotional life. Not all mental states referred to by the same
word (eg,“fear”) look alike, feel alike, or have the same neurophysiological signature …

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of
researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony …

When do listeners take into account who the speaker is? We asked people to listen to
utterances whose content sometimes did not match inferences based on the identity of the …

The perspective that I will develop in these pages, 1 what has come to be referred to as the
“Third Wave” approach to variation, 2 takes as basic that the meaningfulness of …

One of the main limitations of natural language‐based approaches to meaning is that they
do not incorporate multimodal representations the way humans do. In this study, we …

This article follows a change in pronunciation of word-medial intervocalic/t/in New Zealand
English, as it unfolds over 120 years. Data are analyzed in the context of questions about the …