[HTML][HTML] The action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE): Meta-analysis of a benchmark finding for embodiment

A Winter, C Dudschig, J Miller, R Ulrich, B Kaup - Acta Psychologica, 2022 - Elsevier
The embodied account of language comprehension has been one of the most influential
theoretical developments in the recent decades addressing the question how humans …

Are automatic conceptual cores the gold standard of semantic processing? The context‐dependence of spatial meaning in grounded congruency effects

LAM Lebois, CD Wilson‐Mendenhall… - Cognitive …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
According to grounded cognition, words whose semantics contain sensory‐motor features
activate sensory‐motor simulations, which, in turn, interact with spatial responses to produce …

Too late to be grounded? Motor resonance for action words acquired after middle childhood

B Kogan, E Muñoz, A Ibáñez, AM Garcia - Brain and Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Though well established for languages acquired in infancy, the role of embodied
mechanisms remains poorly understood for languages learned in middle childhood and …

Embodiment and second-language: Automatic activation of motor responses during processing spatially associated L2 words and emotion L2 words in a vertical …

C Dudschig, I De la Vega, B Kaup - Brain and language, 2014 - Elsevier
Converging evidence suggests that understanding our first-language (L1) results in
reactivation of experiential sensorimotor traces in the brain. Surprisingly, little is known …

Immediate sensorimotor grounding of novel concepts learned from language alone

F Günther, T Nguyen, L Chen, C Dudschig… - Journal of Memory and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Theories of grounded cognition postulate that concepts are grounded in sensorimotor
experience. But how can that be for concepts like Atlantis for which we do not have that …

Reading “sun” and looking up: The influence of language on saccadic eye movements in the vertical dimension

C Dudschig, J Souman, M Lachmair, I Vega, B Kaup - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Traditionally, language processing has been attributed to a separate system in the brain,
which supposedly works in an abstract propositional manner. However, there is increasing …

What's up? Emotion-specific activation of vertical space during language processing

C Dudschig, I de la Vega, B Kaup - Acta psychologica, 2015 - Elsevier
The relationship between language processing and vertical space has been shown for
various groups of words including valence words, implicit location words, and words …

[HTML][HTML] The Emoji Spatial Stroop Task: Exploring the impact of vertical positioning of emoji on emotional processing

LK Kaye, GM Darker, S Rodriguez-Cuadrado… - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite emoji often being assumed to be a form of emotional communication, the emotional
affordances of these are not yet fully established. The current study employed the Emoji …

Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing

MA Petilli, F Günther, A Vergallito, M Ciapparelli… - Journal of Memory and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In their strongest formulation, theories of grounded cognition claim that concepts are made
up of sensorimotor information. Following such equivalence, perceptual properties of objects …

Investigating the nature of spatial codes for different modes of Simon tasks: Evidence from congruency sequence effects and delta functions.

N Lee, YS Cho - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Simon effects have been observed to arise from different modes of spatial information (eg,
physical location, arrow direction, and location word). The present study investigated …