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Gunraj, Danielle N.; Drumm-Hewitt, April M.; Klin, Celia M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
According to theories of embodied cognition, a critical element in language comprehension is the formation of sensorimotor simulations of the actions and events described in a text. Although much of the embodied cognition research has focused on simulations of motor actions, we ask whether readers form simulations of story characters' linguistic…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Schemata (Cognition), Human Body, Imagery