Revisiting mental simulation in language comprehension: six replication attempts.

The notion of language comprehension as mental simulation has become popular in cognitive science. We revisit some of the original empirical evidence for this. Specifically, we attempted to replicate the findings from earlier studies that examined the mental simulation of object orientation, shape,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rolf A Zwaan, Diane Pecher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3530580?pdf=render