Search Results - "Zwaan, R. A."

The functional role of motor activation in language processing: Motor cortical oscillations support lexical-semantic retrieval by van Elk, M., van Schie, H.T., Zwaan, R.A., Bekkering, H.

“…There is increasing experimental evidence that processing action-related language results in the automatic activation of associated regions of the motor and…”
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Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory by Zwaan, Rolf A, Radvansky, Gabriel A

“…This article reviews research on the use of situation models in language comprehension and memory retrieval over the past 15 years. Situation models are…”
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Discourse comprehension by GRAESSER, A. C, MILLIS, K. K, ZWAAN, R. A

“…The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected…”
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Retrieval From Temporally Organized Situation Models by Radvansky, Gabriel A, Zwaan, Rolf A, Federico, Todd, Franklin, Nancy

“…Time is an important part of establishing situations in the world. As such, temporal information should be reflected in the organization of information into…”
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The Effect of Implied Orientation Derived from Verbal Context on Picture Recognition by Stanfield, Robert A., Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…Perceptual symbol systems assume an analogue relationship between a symbol and its referent, whereas amodal symbol systems assume an arbitrary relationship…”
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Indexing space and time in film understanding by Magliano, Joseph P., Miller, Jason, Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…We investigated the extent to which understanders monitor shifts in time and space during film comprehension. Participants viewed a feature‐length film and…”
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Effect of Genre Expectations on Text Comprehension by Zwaan, Rolf A

“…This article investigates whether expectations about discourse genre influence the process and products of text comprehension Ss read texts either with a…”
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Assessing the usefulness of bibliometric indicators for the humanities and the social and behavioural sciences: a comparative study by NEDERHOF, A. J, ZWAAN, R. A, DE BRUIN, R. E, DEKKER, P. J

“…A bibliometric analysis of articles (N = 692) published in the Netherlands 1980-1985 in 5 subfields of the humanities (social history, general & Dutch…”
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Body posture facilitates retrieval of autobiographical memories by Dijkstra, Katinka, Kaschak, Michael P., Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…We assessed potential facilitation of congruent body posture on access to and retention of autobiographical memories in younger and older adults. Response…”
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Mental simulation in language comprehension and social cognition by Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…Current theories in social cognition and cognitive psychology conceptualize understanding of actions and of language describing actions as the performance of…”
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The Impact of Smoking Urges on Working Memory Performance by Madden, Carol J, Zwaan, Rolf A

“…The effect of smoking urges on cognitive performance is relatively short-lived (R. A. Zwaan, R. A. Stanfield, & C. M. Madden, 2000). The authors examined…”
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The presence of an event in the narrated situation affects its availability to the comprehender by ZWAAN, Rolf A, MADDEN, Carol J, WRITTEN, Shannon N

“…Narrative descriptions of events often depart from how these events would have occurred in "real time." For example, narratives often contain time shifts in…”
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Quality Judgments of Journals as Indicators of Research Performance in the Humanities and the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Nederhof, A. J, Zwaan, R. A

“…Describes a study that was conducted in The Netherlands to construct and validate an indicator of research performance through collecting peer judgments of…”
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Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990) by Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M.K., Aucoin, P., Bahnik, Š., Birch, S., Birt, A. R., Bornstein, B. H., Bouwmeester, S., Brandimonte, M. A., Brown, C., Buswell, K., Carlson, C., Carlson, M., Chu, S., Cislak, A., Colarusso, M., Colloff, M. F., Dellapaolera, K.S., Delvenne, J.-F., Di Domenico, A., Drummond, A., Echterhoff, G., Edlund, J. E., Eggleston, C. M., Fairfield, B., Franco, G., Gabbert, F., Gamblin, B. W., Garry, M., Gentry, R., Gilbert, E. A., Greenberg, D. L., Halberstadt, J., Hall, L., Hancock, P. J. B., Hirsch, D., Holt, G., Jackson, J. C., Jong, J., Kehn, A., Koch, C., Kopietz, R., Körner, U., Kunar, M. A., Lai, C. K., Langton, S. R. H., Leite, F. P., Mammarella, N., Marsh, J. E., McConnaughy, K. A., McCoy, S., McIntyre, A. H., Meissner, C. A., Michael, R.B., Mitchell, A.A., Mugayar-Baldocchi, M., Musselman, R., Ng, C., Nichols, A. L., Nunez, N. L., Palmer, M. A., Pappagianopoulos, J. E., Petro, M. S., Poirier, C. R., Portch, E., Rainsford, M., Rancourt, A., Romig, C., Rubínová, E., Sanson, M., Satchell, L., Sauer, J. D., Schweitzer, K., Shaheed, J., Skelton, F., Sullivan, G. A., Susa, K. J., Swanner, J. K., Thompson, W. B., Todaro, R., Ulatowska, J., Valentine, T., Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., Vranka, M., Wade, K. A., Was, C. A., Weatherford, D., Wiseman, K., Zaksaite, T., Zuj, D. V., Zwaan, R. A.

“…Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later. However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery,…”
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Smoking Urges Affect Language Processing by Zwaan, Rolf A, Truitt, Timothy P

“…We examined the hypothesis that cigarette smoking urges take up working memory resources and interfere with language comprehension. Thirty-six smokers and 36…”
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Processing of color words activates color representations by Richter, Tobias, Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether color representations are routinely activated when color words are processed. Congruency effects of…”
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Registered Replication Report: Hart & Albarracín (2011) by Eerland, Anita, Sherrill, Andrew M., Magliano, Joseph P., Zwaan, Rolf A., Arnal, Jack D., Aucoin, Philip, Berger, Stephanie A., Birt, Angela R., Capezza, Nicole, Carlucci, Marianna, Crocker, Candace, Ferretti, Todd R., Kibbe, Mackenzie R., Knepp, Michael M., Kurby, Christopher A., Melcher, Joseph M., Michael, Stephen W., Poirier, Christopher, Prenoveau, Jason M.

“…Language can be viewed as a complex set of cues that shape people's mental representations of situations. For example, people think of behavior described using…”
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Emotions and literary text comprehension by Kneepkens, E.W.E.M., Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…The purpose of this paper is to develop a more comprehensive view on text comprehension, which encompasses both emotional and cognitive aspects. We take…”
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Inhibition of Smoking-Related Information in Smokers and Nonsmokers by Zwaan, Rolf A, Truitt, Timothy P

“…Twenty-four smokers and 24 nonsmokers performed a modified version of M. A. Gernsbacher, K. R. Varner, and M. E. Faust's (1990) suppression task, involving…”
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Grasping spheres, not planets by Taylor, Lawrence J., Zwaan, Rolf A.

“…Memory for objects helps us to determine how we can most effectively and appropriately interact with them. This suggests a tightly coupled interplay between…”
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