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Embodied Cognition Reading Group

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Meetings are held Wednesdays 12:00 - 1:30 in Green 104
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Spring Quarter 2008

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Spatial Language

6/4/08

Ian & Mike
(8)

Motion / Embodied Stuff

5/14/08

Sian

 Becchio, C., Sartori, L., Bulgheroni, M., & Castiello, U. (2008) Both your intention and mine are reflected in kinematics of my reach-to-grasp movement. Cognition, 106, 894-912. PDF

Wood, J. N., Glynn, D. D., & Hauser, M. D. (2007) The uniquely human capacity to throw evolved from a non-throwing primate: an evolutionary dissociation between action and perception. Biology Letters, 3, 360-364. PDF
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Skeptics

5/7/08

Ian

 Negri, G. A. L., Rumiati, R. I., Zadini, A., Ukmar, M., Mahon, B. Z., & Caramazza, A. (2007) What is the role of motor simulation in action and object recognition? Evidence from apraxia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 795-816. PDF

Brass, M., Schmitt, R. M., Spengler, S., & Gergely, G. (2007) Investigating action understanding: Inferential processes versus action simulation. Current Biology, 17, 2117-2121. PDF
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4/9/08
Cancelled

Winter Quarter 2008

(9)

Phantom Limbs

3/5/08

Shu-Ju

 Brugger, P. et. al. (2000) Beyond re-membering: Phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs. PNAS, 97, 6167-6172.

Funk, M., Shiffrar, M. & Brugger, P. (2005) Hand movement observation by individuals born without hands: Phantom limbb experience constrains visual limb perception. Exp Brain Res, 164, 341-346.
Review Articles

Price, E. H. (2006) A critical review of congenital phantom limb cases and a developmental theory for the basis of body image. Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 310-322.

Giummarra, M. J., Gibson, S. J., Georgiou-Karistianis, N. & Bradshaw, J. L. (2007) Brain Research Reviews, 54, 219-232
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2/27/08
No Meeting
Cognitive Brownbag: B101 @ 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Dr. Gabriel Radvansky
(7)

2/20/08
No Meeting
(6)

Spatial Planning

2/13/08

Chase

 Cohen, R. G. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2004) Where grasps are made reveals how grasps are planned: generation and recall of motor plans. Exp Brain Res, 157, 486-495.
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Gesture & Action

2/6/08

 Wagner Cook, S. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (under review) Embodied communication: Speakers' gestures affect listners actions.
(4)

1/30/08
No Meeting
Cognitive Brownbag: B101 @ 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Dr. Stanislas Dehaene
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Space & Number

1/23/08

 McCrink, K., Dehaene, S., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2007) Moving along the number line: Operational momentum in nonsymbolic arithmetic. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1324 - 1333.
Further Reading

Hubbard, E. M., Piazza, M., Pinel, P. & Dehaene, S. (2005) Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 6, 435 - 448.
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Neuroimaging:
Doing & Seeing -> Understanding Language

1/16/08

Sian

 Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I., Mattarella-Mike, A., Nusbaum, H., & Small, S. (In Preparation) In the Game or in the Stands: Sports experience changes the neural processing of language.
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1/9/08

 Casasanto, D. (2007) Body-specific representations of action word meanings in right and left handers. Nature Precedings.

Summer Quarter 2007

7/11/07
 Casasanto, D. & Boroditsky, L. (2007) Time in the mind: Using space to think about time. Cognition. Cognition.

Casasanto, D. & Lozano, S. The cognitive function of metaphorical gestures. To Appear In: Cienki, A. & Muller, C. (Eds.), Methaphor and Gesture.

Casasanto, D. & Lozano, S. Embodiment of abstract concepts. To Appear In: Proceedings of 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
6/27/07
2:00PM
 Sato, M., Cattaneo L., Rizzolatti, G., & Gallese, V. (2007) Numbers within our hands: Modulation of corticospinal excitability of hand muscles during numerical judgment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 684 - 693.

Andres M., Seron, X., & Olivier, E. (2007) Contribution of hand motor circuits to counting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1-14.

Spring Quarter 2007

5/23/07
 Fiebach, C. J., Friederici, A. D., Muller, K., von Cramon D. Y., & Hernandez, A. E. (2003) Distinct brain representations for early and late learned words. NeuroImage, 19, 1627-1637.
5/2/07
 Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (in press) Speech-associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system. Brain and Language.
4/24/07

Tuesday
3:00PM

 Gentilucci, M., Bernardis, P., Crisi, G., & Dalla Volta, R. (2006) Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of broca's area affects verbal responses to gesture observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1059-1074.

Schutz-Bosbach, S., Mancini, B., Aglioti, S. M., & Haggard, P. (2006) Self and other in the human motor system. Current Biology, 16, 1830-1834.
About TMS

Walsh, V. & Rushworth, M. A primer of magnetic stimulation as a tool for neuropsychology. Neruopsychologia, 37, 125 - 135.
4/11/07
 Glenburg, A. M., Sato, M., Cattaneo, L., Riggio, L., Palumbo, D., & Buccino, G. Processing abstract language modulates motor system activity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, in press.
4/4/07
 Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., Stitzlein, C. A., Schunn, C. D., & Kirschenbaum, S. S. (2006) The relationship between spatial transformations and iconic gestures. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 6, 1 - 29.

Winter Quarter 2007

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Gesture perception/production and motor interference

3/14/07

Pat

 Bach, P. & Tipper, S. (2006) Bend it like Beckham: Embodying the motor skills of famous athletes. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Pschology, 59, 2033 - 2039.

Glover, S. et al. (2004) Grasping the meaning of words. Experimental Brain Research, 154, 103-108.
Further Reading

Helbig, H. B., Graf, M., & Kiefer, M. (2006) The role of action representation in visual object recognition. Experimental Brain Research, 174, 221 - 228.

Tipper, S. P., Paul, M. A., & Hayes, A. E. (2006) Vision-for-action: The effects of object property discrimination and action state on affordance compatibility effects. Pschonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 493 - 498.
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Gesture's role in language and retrieval

2/28/07

Eve

 Rauscher, F. H., Krauss, R. M., & Chen, Y. (1996) Gesture, speech, and lexical access: The role of lexical movements in speech production. Psychological Science, 7, 226 - 231.

Iverson, J. M. & Thelen, E. (1999) Hand, mouth, and brain: The dynamic emergance of speech and gesture. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 11 - 12.
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Implicit knowledge, gesture, and the body

2/21/07

Zac

 Thomas, L. E., & Lleras, A. (in press) Moving eyes and moving thought: On the spatial compatibility between eye movements and cognition.

Broaders, S. C. Wagner Cook, S., Mitchell, Z., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (under review) Making children gesture reveals implicit knowledge and leads to learning.
Further Readings

Clements, W. A., Rustin, C. L., & McCallum, S. (2000) Promoting the transition from implicit to explicit understanding: A training study of false belief. Developmental Science, 3, 81-92.
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Number: Perception, action, and higher-order cognition

2/14/07

Ian

 Andres, M., Davare, M., Pesenti, M., Olivier, E., & Seron, X. (2004) Number magnitude and grip aperture interaction. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, 15, 2773 - 2777.

Di Luca, S., Grana, A., Semenza, C., Seron, X., & Pesenti, M. (2006) Finger-digit compatibility in Arabic numeral processing. The Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1648 - 1663.
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Daily practice, environment, and sense of self

2/7/07

Sara & Margret

 Alac, M. & Hutchins, E. (2004) I see what you are saying: Action as cognition in fMRI brain mapping practice. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4, 1 - 30.
Further Readings

Enfield, N. J.(2005) The body as cognitive artifact in kinship representations: Hand gesture diagrams by speakers of lao. Current Anthropology. 46, 51 - 73.

Goodwin, C. (2000) Action and embodiment within situated human interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 1489 - 1522.

Hutchins, E. & Palen, L. Constructing meaning from space, gesture, and speech.
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Zwaan Readings
(Zwaan Talk: 2/1/07)

1/31/07

Zwaan via Sian

 Lincoln, A. E., Long, D., L., & Baynes, K. (2007) Hemispheric differences in the activation of perceptual information during sentence comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 45, 397 - 405.

Zwaan, R., A., Stanfield, R., A., & Yaxley, R., H. (2002) Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects. Psychological Science, 13, 168 - 171.

Zwaan, R., A., & Taylor, L., J., (2006) Seeing, acting, understanding: Motor resonance in language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 1 - 11.
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Social aspects of embodied cognition II

1/24/07

Nicole, Kalina, and Shiri

 Sommerville, J. A. & Decety, J. (2006) Weaving the fabric of social interaction: Articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 179 - 200.

Leslie, K. R., Johnson-Frey, S. H., Grafton, S. T. (2004) Functional imaging of face and hand imitation: towards a motor theory of empathy. NeuroImage, 21, 601 - 607.
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Social aspects of embodied cognition I

1/17/07

Nicole, Kalina, and Shiri

 Chartrand, T. L. & Bargh, J. A. (1999) The chameleon effect: The perception-behavior link and social interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 893 - 910.

Priester, J. R., Cacioppo, J. T., & Petty R. E. (1996) The influence of motor processes on attitudes toward novel versus familiar semantic stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 442 - 447.
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What is embodied cognition?

1/10/07
Gallese, V. & Lakoff, G. (2005) The Brain's Concepts: The role of the sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge. Coginitive Neuropsychology, 22, 455-479.

Niedenthal, P. M., Barsalou, L. W., Winkielman, P. Krauth-Gruber, S., & Ric, F. (2005) Embodiment in attitudes, social perception, and emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 184-211.
Further Readings

Glenberg (1997), Barsalou

Summer Quarter 2006

7/25/06
Ruddle, R. & Lessels, S. (2006) For Efficient Navigational Search, Humans Require Full Physical Movement, but Not a Rich Visual Scene. Psychological Science, 17, 460-465

Smith, L. (2005) Cognition as dynamic system: Principles from embodiment. Developmental Review, 25, 278-298.
7/18/06
Proffitt, D.R. (2006). Embodied perception and the economy of action. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1(2), 110-122.
7/13/06
Nunez, R., & Sweetser, E. (2006). With the Future Behind Them : Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time. Cognitive Science, 30(3), 1-49.
7/6/06
 Rohrer, T. "The Body in Space: Embodiment, Experientialism and Linguistic Conceptualization" In Body, Language and Mind, Vol. 2. Zlatev, J., Ziemke, T., Frank, R., Dirven, R. (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006
6/20/06
 Anderson, M. How to study the mind: An introduction to embodied cognition.
6/13/06
 Anderson, M., Santoianni, F., & Sabatano, C. Brain Development in Learning Environments: Embodied and Perceptual Advancements, 2005

Spring Quarter 2006

6/7/06
Amorim, M., Isabeleu, B., & Jarraya, M. Embodied spatial transformations: "body-analogy" for mental rotation of objects. To Appear In: Journal of Experimental Psychology. August, 2006.
5/10/06 Markman, A. & Brendi, C. M. Constraining theories of embodied cognition. Psychological Science. 2005, 16, 6-10.
5/3/06 Nunez, Z. Do Real Numbers Really Move? Language, Thought, and Gesture: The Embodied Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics. In R. Hersh (ed.), 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics. New Yok: Springer, 2004, pp. 160 -180.
4/19/06 Casile, A. & Giese, M. A. Nonvisual motor training influences biological motor perception. Current Biology, 2006, 16, 69-74.
4/12/06 Decety, J. & Grezes, J. The power of simulation: Imagining one's own and other's behavior. Brain Research, in press.

Winter Quarter 2006

3/15/06
 Prinz, W. Experimental Approaches to Action. In J. Roessler & N. Eilan (eds.), Agency and self-awareness (pp. 165-187).
3/1/06
 Fogassi, L., Ferrari, P. F., Gesierich, B., Rozzi, S., Chersi, F., & Rizzolatti, G. Parietal lobe: From action organization to intention understanding. Science, 2005, 308, 662-667.

Nelissen, K. Luppino, G., Vanduffel, W., Rizzolatti, G., & Orban, G. A. Observing others: Multiple action representations in the frontal lobe. Science, 2005, 310, 332-336.
2/15/06
Beilock, S. L. & Holt, L. E. Embodied preference judgments: Can likeability be driven by the motor system? Manuscript In Progress

Kato, C., Isoda, H., Takehara, Y., Matsuo, K., Moriya, T., & Nakai, T. Involvement of motor cortices in retrieval of kanji studied by functional MRI. Neuroreport, 1999, 10, 1335-1339.
1/4/06
 Garbarini & Adenzato. At the root of embodied cognition: cognitive science meets neurophsiology. Brain and Cognition, 2004, 56, 100-106.

Fall Quarter 2005

12/12/05
 Bergen, B. Mental simulation in spatial language processing.

Bergen, B. & Wheeler, K. B. Sentence understanding engages motor processes.
11/28/05
 Knoblich, G. & Flach R. Predicting the effects of actions: Interactions of perception and action. Psychological Science, 2001, 12, 467-472.

Sebanz, N. Knoblich, G., & Prinz, W. Representing others' actions: Just like one's own? Cognition, 2003, 88, B11-B21
11/14/05
 de Vega M, Robertson DA, Glenberg AM, et al. On doing two things at once: Temporal constraints on actions in language comprehension, Memory and cognition, 2004, 32, 1033-1043

Tettamanti M, Buccino G, Saccuman MC, et al. Listening to action-related sentences activates fronto-parietal motor circuits. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005, 17, 273-281.
10/31/05
 Wilson, M. Perceiving imitatible stimuli: Consequences of isomorphism between input and output. Psychological Bulletin, 2001, 127, 543-553.

Zwaan, R. A. Moving words: Dynamic representations in language comprehension. Cognitive Science, 2004, 28, 611-619.
10/17/05
 Holt, L. & Beilock S. Expertise and its embodiment: Examining the impact of sensorimotor skill expertise on the representation of action-related text. Under Review

Wilson, M. Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2002, 9, 625-636.

Gesture Reading Group

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