Search Results - "Kaschak, Michael P"

Examining the impact of text style and epistemic beliefs on conceptual change by Yazbec, Angele, Borovsky, Arielle, Kaschak, Michael P

“…Learning can be difficult for students due to incorrect prior knowledge, or misconceptions, interfering with the acquisition of new knowledge. Conceptual…”
Get full text

Gaming experience affects the interpretation of ambiguous words by Eligio, Rachel B, Kaschak, Michael P

“…Rodd et al. (2016) report that recreational rowers' acquisition of sport-related terminology affected their interpretation of words that have both…”
Get full text

Long-term cumulative structural priming persists for (at least) one week by Kaschak, Michael P., Kutta, Timothy J., Schatschneider, Christopher

“…We present an experiment that explores the degree to which cumulative structural priming effects of the sort reported in Kaschak (Memory and Cognition…”
Get full text

The effect of the menstrual cycle on dichotic listening by Morris, Richard J, Ingvalson, Erin M, Kaschak, Michael P, Smith, Alissa N

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the menstrual cycle on responses to a dichotic listening task. It was hypothesized that participants…”
Get full text

Global Statistical Learning in a Visual Search Task by Jones, John L, Kaschak, Michael P

“…Locating a target in a visual search task is facilitated when the target location is repeated on successive trials. Global statistical properties also…”
Get more information

Enacted Reading Comprehension: Using Bodily Movement to Aid the Comprehension of Abstract Text Content by Kaschak, Michael P, Connor, Carol M, Dombek, Jennifer L

“…We report a design study that assessed the feasibility of Enacted Reading Comprehension (ERC), an intervention designed to teach 3rd and 4th grade students (n…”
Get full text

The Action–Sentence Compatibility Effect: It's All in the Timing by Borreggine, Kristin L., Kaschak, Michael P.

“…When participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences that describe action toward the body (i.e., “Mark dealt the cards to you”) or away from…”
Get full text

Neuroimaging studies of language production and comprehension by GERNSBACHER, Morton Ann, KASCHAK, Michael P

“…The 1990s were dubbed the "Decade of the Brain." During this time there was a marked increase in the amount of neuroimaging work observing how the brain…”
Get full text

Pointing to the Future of Language Research by Long, Michael, Chia, Katherine, Kaschak, Michael P

“…Murgiano et al. (2021) argue that indexicality and iconicity play a larger role in language than is typically acknowledged. They further call for a more…”
Get full text

Female fertility affects men's linguistic choices by Coyle, Jacqueline M, Kaschak, Michael P

“…We examined the influence of female fertility on the likelihood of male participants aligning their choice of syntactic construction with those of female…”
Get full text

Perception of motion affects language processing by Kaschak, Michael P., Madden, Carol J., Therriault, David J., Yaxley, Richard H., Aveyard, Mark, Blanchard, Adrienne A., Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…Recently developed accounts of language comprehension propose that sentences are understood by constructing a perceptual simulation of the events being…”
Get full text

Structural priming in question-answer dialogues by Chia, Katherine, Kaschak, Michael P.

“…We explored whether speakers self-prime during question-answer dialogues. Experimenters called restaurants and asked two questions. The first was about the…”
Get full text

Embodiment, evolution, and social cognition: An integrative framework by Kaschak, Michael P., Maner, Jon K.

“…This paper integrates concepts from evolutionary and embodied approaches to psychology to generate a theoretical framework for understanding social cognition…”
Get full text

Implicit and Explicit Memory Factors in Cumulative Structural Priming by Kutta, Timothy J, Kaschak, Michael P, Porcellini, Angela, Jones, John L

“…Although researchers have argued that short-term structural priming is driven by both implicit and explicit memory processes, accounts of longer-term…”
Get full text

Constructing Meaning: The Role of Affordances and Grammatical Constructions in Sentence Comprehension by Kaschak, Michael P, Glenberg, Arthur M

“…The Indexical Hypothesis describes how sentences become meaningful through grounding their interpretation in action. We develop support for the hypothesis by…”
Get full text

Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information by Chia, Katherine, Kaschak, Michael P.

“…We present two studies examining the factors that lead speakers to produce elliptical responses to requests for information. Following Clark and Levelt and…”
Get full text

Non-sentential responses to requests for information by Brousse, Catherine M, Chia, Katherine, Kaschak, Michael P

“…When faced with requests for information ("Where did you go last night?"), why do speakers make non-sentential replies ("The movies") rather than full sentence…”
Get full text

Perception of Auditory Motion Affects Language Processing by Kaschak, Michael P., Zwaan, Rolf A., Aveyard, Mark, Yaxley, Richard H.

“…Previous reports have demonstrated that the comprehension of sentences describing motion in a particular direction (toward, away, up, or down) is affected by…”
Get full text

Top-down and bottom-up contributions to understanding sentences describing objects in motion by Rueschemeyer, Shirley-Ann, Glenberg, Arthur M, Kaschak, Michael P, Mueller, Karsten, Friederici, Angela D

“…Theories of embodied language comprehension propose that the neural systems used for perception, action, and emotion are also engaged during language…”
Get full text

Developmental Timescale of Rapid Adaptation to Conflicting Cues in Real‐Time Sentence Processing by Yazbec, Angele, Kaschak, Michael P., Borovsky, Arielle

“…Children and adults use established global knowledge to generate real‐time linguistic predictions, but less is known about how listeners generate predictions…”
Get full text