Search Results - "COULSON, Seana"

Dynamic grounding of emotion concepts by Winkielman, Piotr, Coulson, Seana, Niedenthal, Paula

“…Emotion concepts are important. They help us to understand, experience and predict human behaviour. Emotion concepts also link the realm of the abstract with…”
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A psychometric measure of working memory capacity for configured body movement by Wu, Ying Choon, Coulson, Seana

“…Working memory (WM) models have traditionally assumed at least two domain-specific storage systems for verbal and visuo-spatial information. We review data…”
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Sensorimotor simulation and emotion processing: Impairing facial action increases semantic retrieval demands by Davis, Joshua D., Winkielman, Piotr, Coulson, Seana

“…Sensorimotor models suggest that understanding the emotional content of a face recruits a simulation process in which a viewer partially reproduces the facial…”
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Network resonance and the auditory steady state response by Johnson, Teryn D., Gallagher, Austin J., Coulson, Seana, Rangel, Lara M.

“…The auditory steady state response (ASSR) arises when periodic sounds evoke stable responses in auditory networks that reflect the acoustic characteristics of…”
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The communicative style of a speaker can affect language comprehension? ERP evidence from the comprehension of irony by Regel, Stefanie, Coulson, Seana, Gunter, Thomas C

“…Abstract An important issue in irony comprehension concerns when and how listeners integrate extra-linguistic and linguistic information to compute the…”
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The role of narcissism and motivated reasoning on misinformation propagation by Haupt, Michael Robert, Cuomo, Raphael, Mackey, Tim K., Coulson, Seana

“…BackgroundExplanations for why social media users propagate misinformation include failure of classical reasoning (over-reliance on intuitive heuristics),…”
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Conceptual integration and metaphor: An event-related potential study by COULSON, Seana, VAN PETTEN, Cyma

“…Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 18 normal adults as they read sentences that ended with words used literally, metaphorically, or in an…”
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Right hemisphere activation of joke-related information: an event-related brain potential study by Coulson, Seana, Wu, Ying Choon

“…Two studies tested the hypothesis that the right hemisphere engages in relatively coarse semantic coding that aids high-level language tasks such as joke…”
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Contextual priming in grapheme-color synesthetes and yoked controls: 400 msec in the life of a synesthete by Brang, David, Kanai, Stanley, Ramachandran, Vilayanur S, Coulson, Seana

“…Grapheme-color synesthesia is a heritable trait where graphemes ("2") elicit the concurrent perception of specific colors (red). Researchers have questioned…”
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Cognitive, neurophysiological, and functional correlates of proverb interpretation abnormalities in schizophrenia by Kiang, Michael, Light, Gregory A, Prugh, Jocelyn, Coulson, Seana, Braff, David L, Kutas, Marta

“…A hallmark of schizophrenia is impaired proverb interpretation, which could be due to: (1) aberrant activation of disorganized semantic associations, or (2)…”
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Right Hemisphere Sensitivity to Word- and Sentence-Level Context: Evidence From Event-Related Brain Potentials by Coulson, Seana, Federmeier, Kara D, Petten, Cyma Van, Kutas, Marta

“…Researchers using lateralized stimuli have suggested that the left hemisphere is sensitive to sentence-level context, whereas the right hemisphere (RH)…”
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A special role for the right hemisphere in metaphor comprehension? by Coulson, Seana, Van Petten, Cyma

“…Abstract It has been suggested that the right hemisphere (RH) has a privileged role in the processing of figurative language, including metaphors, idioms, and…”
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Brain responses to a lab-evolved artificial language with space-time metaphors by Verhoef, Tessa, Marghetis, Tyler, Walker, Esther, Coulson, Seana

“…What is the connection between the cultural evolution of a language and the rapid processing response to that language in the brains of individual learners? In…”
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A special role for the right hemisphere in metaphor comprehension? ERP evidence from hemifield presentation by Coulson, Seana, Van Petten, Cyma

“…It has been suggested that the right hemisphere (RH) has a privileged role in the processing of figurative language, including metaphors, idioms, and verbal…”
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Predictability and novelty in literal language comprehension: An ERP study by Davenport, Tristan, Coulson, Seana

“…Abstract Linguists have suggested that one mechanism for the creative extension of meaning in language involves mapping, or constructing correspondences…”
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Iconic Gestures Facilitate Discourse Comprehension in Individuals With Superior Immediate Memory for Body Configurations by Wu, Ying Choon, Coulson, Seana

“…To understand a speaker's gestures, people may draw on kinesthetic working memory (KWM)—a system for temporarily remembering body movements. The present study…”
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Moving thoughts: emotion concepts from the perspective of context dependent embodied simulation by Winkielman, Piotr, Davis, Joshua D., Coulson, Seana

“…This review article presents our perspective on psychological and physiological mechanisms underlying concepts from the domain of affect, emotion, and…”
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Hemispheric asymmetry in interpreting novel literal language: An event-related potential study by Davenport, Tristan, Coulson, Seana

“…Conceptual mapping, or making connections between conceptual structure in different domains, is a key mechanism of creative language use whose neural…”
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Verbal working memory and co-speech gesture processing by Momsen, Jacob, Gordon, Jared, Wu, Ying Choon, Coulson, Seana

“…•EEG recorded to speech with semantically congruent/incongruent gestures under high/low verbal load.•ERP to words with congruent gestures not impacted by VWM…”
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Event related spectral perturbations of gesture congruity: Visuospatial resources are recruited for multimodal discourse comprehension by Momsen, Jacob, Gordon, Jared, Wu, Ying Choon, Coulson, Seana

“…•EEG was recorded as adults watched discourse videos with gestures that were either congruent or incongruent with speech.•Incongruent gestures led to more…”
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