Readings
COGS 238 / LING 238
(all to be available online)
Presenters' initials in [red]

R1. Introduction.

• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 1.

• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 2.
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• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 3.
• Stanfield, R.A. & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The effect of implied orientation derived from verbal context on picture recognition. Psych Science, 12, 153-156. [link]
• Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., Yaxley, R.H. (2002). Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects. Psychological Science, 13, 168-171. [link]
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• Richardson, D. C., Spivey, M. J., McRae, K., & Barsalou, L. W. (2003). Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs. Cognitive Science. [link]
• [MB] Bergen, Benjamin, Shane Lindsay, Teenie Matlock, and Srini Narayanan. 2007. Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence comprehension. Cognitive Science. [link]
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• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 4.
• [ATF] Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [link]
• [JW] Bergen, Benjamin, Avis Chan, Shweta Narayan, Diana Stojanovic, and Kathryn Wheeler (2010) Body part representations in verbal semantics. Memory & Cognition. [link]
• Bergen, Benjamin and Kathryn Wheeler. 2005. Sentence Understanding Engages Motor Processes. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [link]
• [JK] Masson, M. E. J., Bub, D. N., & Warren, C. M. (2008). Kicking calculators: Contribution of embodied representations to sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 256-265. [link]
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• Buccino G., Riggio L., Melli G., Binkofski, F. , Gallese V., and Rizzolatti G. (2005) Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: a combined TMS and behavioral study. Cog. Brain Res. 24: 355-363. [link]
• [RO] Pulvermüller, F., Haerle, M., & Hummel, F. (2001). Walking or Talking?: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Action Verb Processing Brain and Language 78, 143–168[link]
• Pulvermüller, F., Hauk, O., Nikulin, V. & Ilmoniemi, R.J. (2005)Functional links between motor and language systems. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (3), 793-797. [link]
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• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 5, 6.
• [JK] Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). How does verb aspect constrain event representations? Memory & Cognition, 31, 663-672. [link]
• Bergen, Benjamin and Kathryn Wheeler (2010). Grammatical Aspect and Mental Simulation. Brain and Language. [link]
• [LK] Brunye, T. T., Ditman, T., Mahoney, C. R., Augustyn, J. S., & Taylor, H. A. (2009). When you and I share perspectives: Pronouns modulate perspective-taking during narrative comprehension. Psychological Science, 20, 27-32. [link]
• Kaup, B., Yaxley, R.H., Madden, C.J., Zwaan, R.A., & Lüdtke, J. (2007). Experiential simulations of negated text information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 976-990. [link]
• [CR] Taylor, L.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Motor resonance and linguistic focus. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 896-904. [link]

• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 7, 8.
• [CF] Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2008). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 13269–13273. [link]
• [KK] Holt, L. E. & Beilock, S. L. (2006). Expertise and its embodiment: Examining the impact of sensorimotor skill expertise on the representation of action-related text. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 694-701.[link]
• [ATF] Winawer J, Huk A, Boroditsky L. (2010) A motion aftereffect from visual imagery of motion. Cognition 114(2): 276-284.[link]
• Maass, A. & Russo, A. (2003). Directional bias in the mental representation of spatial events: Nature or culture? Psychological Science, 14, 296-301. [link]
• Dennison, Heeyeon and Benjamin Bergen. 2010. Language-driven motor simulation is sensitive to social context. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.[link]

• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 9.
• [JW] Matlock, Teenie. (2003). Fictive motion as cognitive simulation. [link]
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• Zhong, C. B., & Liljenquist, K. (2006). Washing away your sins: Threatened morality and physical cleansing. Science, 313, 1451-1452. [link]

• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 10.
• [EDG] Feldman, J. and S. Narayanan (2003). Embodiment in a Neural Theory of Language. Brain and Language. [link]
• Kaschak, M. P., Madden, C. J., Therriault, D. J., Yaxley, R. H., Aveyard, M. E., Blanchard, A. A., & Zwaan, R. A. (2005). Perception of motion affects language processing. Cognition, 94, B79-B89. [link]
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• [RO] Dove, G. 2010. On the need for embodied and dis-embodied cognition. Frontiers in Cognition. [link]
• [Optional] Glenberg, A. M., Robertson, D. A., (2000). Symbol Grounding and Meaning: A Comparison of High-Dimensional and Embodied Theories of Meaning. JML, 43, 379-401. [link]
• [Optional] Barsalou, L.W. (1999). Language comprehension: Archival memory or preparation for situated action? Discourse Processes, 28, 61-80. [link]
• [Optional]Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Embodied cognition, perceptual symbols, and situation models. Discourse Processes, 28, 81-88. [link]

• Bergen, Benjamin K. (ms.) Louder than words. Ch. 11.
• [LM] Willems, R.M., Labruna, L., D’Esposito, M., Ivry, R., & Casasanto, D. (2011). A Functional Role for the Motor System in Language Understanding: Evidence From Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Psychological Science, 22(7), 849-854. [link]
• Glenberg, A. M., Sato, M., Cattaneo, L. (in press). Use-induced motor plasticity affects the processing of abstract and concrete language. Current Biology. [link]
• Marghetis, T., Davenport, T., Metusalem, R., & B. Bergen. Submitted. From format to function: Embodiment and the functional roles of neural circuits. [link]