Moving words: dynamic representations in language comprehension

By Rolf A. Zwaan, Carol J. Madden, Richard H. Yaxley, M. Aveyard. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The contents of long-term memory and the emergence of knowledge (2009, result): “contrasted with those obtained by Zwaan et al. (2004), a finding the authors explain in terms of the fact that the sentences were presented simultaneously with the movement-inducing pictures and not successively as in the research conducted by Zwaan et al. It would thus appear that the same neuronal”
Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension. (2006, unknown): “Together with a host of findings showing a strong connection between language and visual processes and representations (e.g., Bavelier, 1994; Fincher-Kiefer, 2001; Kaschak et al., 2005; Potter, Kroll, Yachzel, Carpenter, & Sherman, 1986; Richardson, Spivey, Barsalou, & MacRae, 2003; Spivey & Geng, 2”
Language comprehension is both embodied and symbolic (2008, background): “…Fincher-Kiefer (2001); 2 processing Matlock and Richardson (2004) Richardson et al. (2001); 1 Richardson et al. (2003); 1,2 Stanfield and Zwaan (2001) Zwaan et al. (2004) Zwaan et al. (2002); 1,2 Zwaan and Yaxley (2003); 1–3 ‘Deep’ Borghi and Barsalou (2001) Bergen and Wheeler (2005); 1, 2…”
Image schemata in the brain (2005, background): “8 For example, Zwaan et al. (2004) found facilitatory effects when the direction of an object’s motion implied by a sentence matched a change in the size of the object in two successive visual depictions of a scene; mismatches produced inhibition.”
Analog acoustic expression in speech communication (2006, background): “Specifically, findings suggest that the comprehension of sentences describing movement involves perceptual simulation of the movement described by the sentence (Kaschak et al., 2005; Zwaan, Madden, Yaxley, & Aveyard, 2004 ).”
Bookworms versus nerds: Exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds (2006, background): “At the sub-discourse-level, Zwaan and his colleagues have demonstrated that language processing appears to involve perceptual simulations that correspond to real world experience (e.g., Zwaan, Madden, Yaxley, & Aveyard, 2004; Zwaan, StanWeld, & Yaxley, 2002).”
Facilitating Understanding of Movements in Dynamic Visualizations: an Embodied Perspective (2011, background): “For example, (Zwaan et al. 2004) demonstrated that readers mentally simulate a motion described in language.”