Simulating an enactment effect: Pronouns guide action simulation during narrative comprehension

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 172-178

  Ditman, Tali ^a,b   Brunyé, Tad T ^a,c   Mahoney, Caroline R ^a,c   Taylor, Holly A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c US Army NSRDEC   (United States)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Discourse comprehension; Embodied cognition; Language; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NARRATIVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NARRATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77549086343     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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