Embodiment during reading: Simulating a story character's linguistic actions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 364-375

  Gunraj, Danielle N ^a   Drumm Hewitt, April M ^b   Klin, Celia M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMPSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory imagery; Embodied cognition; Reading; Text

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; READING; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84894477575     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034853     Document Type: Article

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