The Immersed Experiencer: Toward An Embodied Theory Of Language Comprehension

By Rolf A. Zwaan. 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, neutral): “Such spectra show great complexity in the case of solutes with a low degree of symmetry and many spins 1/2.”
Processing negated sentences with contradictory predicates: Is a door that is not open mentally closed? (2006, background): “…number of studies that find evidence for the experiential-simulations view for the processing of affirmative information (for an overview, see Zwaan, 2004), it in our view seems justified to assume that the two states of affairs that come to the comprehenders mind when processing a negative…”
Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. (2012, background): “…been called mental models (Johnson-Laird, 1983), situation models (Kerkhofs and Haselager, 2006; Kintsch, 1988, 1998; van Dijk and Kintsch, 1983; Zwaan, 1999, 2003; Zwaan and Radvansky, 1998; Zwaan et al., 1995), message-level representations (Morris, 1994), or discourse representations (Kamp…”
Words as tools and the problem of abstract words meanings (2009, background): “Language comprehension entails a mental simulation of the situation described through language; thus words guide action, activating online " simulations " that help us to interact with objects and entities in the environment (Gallese, 2007; Zwaan, 2004).”
A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content. (2008, neutral): “Similar effects in terms of object orientation (as opposed to object shape) have been observed by the same group (Stanfield and Zwaan, 2001; for review and discussion , see Zwaan, 2004).”
COGNITIVE MODELS OF WRITING: WRITING PROFICIENCY AS A COMPLEX INTEGRATED SKILL (2008, background): “This kind of interpretive reasoning involves at the minimum the creation and maintenance of a situation model in which events and their interconnections are stored (Zwaan, 2004; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998) as a kind of episodic memory (Baddeley, 2000).”
Toward a theory of semantic representation (2009, background): “…e.g. Jackendo¤ (2002), embodied theories of cognition propose that cognition is grounded in bodily states, modal simulations, and situated action (Barsalou 1999; Barsalou et al. 2003; Decety and Grezes 2006; Glenberg and Robertson 2000; Gibbs 2006; Rizzolati and Craighero 2004; Zwaan 2004).”
Better you than I: Perspectives and emotion simulation during narrative comprehension (2011, background): “These multidimensional situation models built during language comprehension track information regarding characters, locations, time, emotions, expectations, objects, actions, and causality (Zwaan, 2004 ; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998 ).”
Embodied Sentence Comprehension (2005, background): “experiential traces in the mental simulation of the described events ( Zwaan, in press ).”
Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension (2014, background): “The current empirical status of these and other theories (e.g., embodied comprehension; Zwaan, 2003) is beyond the scope of the present article.”
Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds (2006, background): “This Immersed Experiencer Framework (Zwaan, 2004) hypothesizes that words automatically activate neural events similar to those that occur during the actual experience of their referents.”
Embodied Language: A Review of the Role of the Motor System in Language Comprehension (2008, methodology): “In reading, there is good evidence that readers internally simulate the events that are described in a text (Barsalou, 1999; Bower & Morrow, 1990; Zwaan, 2004; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998).”
Stories and the Promotion of Social Cognition (2018, background): “Because engagement with narrative fiction involves a deeply embodied mental simulation (Zwaan, 2004), and narratives provide abstracted representations of real-world situations and individuals, stories could support “the recording, abstraction, and communication of complex social information in a…”
eview hat is that little voice inside my head ? Inner speech henomenology , its role in cognitive performance , and ts relation to self-monitoring (2014, result): “The authors suggest that their results are consistent with the mbodied cognition hypothesis [84,85], suggesting perceptual simlation (mental re-enactment) is an automatic and integral part of anguage comprehension.”