Uni-Tübingen

B4

The Experiential Simulation View of Language Comprehension

How is Sentence Meaning Composed?

We focused on the ‘experiential simulations view of comprehension’. Our previous research showed that non-linguistic memory traces reflecting the comprehender’s experiences are automatically activated during word processing, and that comprehenders build simulations beyond the word level. No definite evidence was found for the assumption that simulations are functionally relevant for comprehension. In Phase III, we continued investigating simulation processes at the sentence level, focusing particularly on the question regarding incrementality. We also investigated the functional relevance of simulations for the processing of expressions requiring substantial composition processes, as well as for children’s language processing.


Publications

  • Dudschig, C., Mackenzie, I. G., Leuthold, H. & Kaup, B. (2018). Environmental sound priming: Does negation modify N400 cross-modal priming effects? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25(4), 1441-1448.
  • Dudschig, C., Mackenzie, I. G., Maienborn, C., Kaup, B. & Leuthold, H. (2018). Negation and the N400: investigating temporal aspects of negation integration using semantic and world-knowledge violations. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 34, 309-319.
  • de la Vega, I., Eikmeier, V., Ulrich, R. & Kaup, B. (2017). The mental timeline in a crossed-hands paradigm. Experimental Psychology. 
  • Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2017). Is it all task-specific? The role of binary responses, verbal mediation and saliency for eliciting language-space associations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 43(2), 259-270. 
  • Kaup, B. & Dudschig, C. (2017). Sätze und Texte verstehen und produzieren. In J. Müsseler & M. Rieger (Eds.), Allgemeine Psychologie (pp. 467-530). Berlin: Springer.
  • Kaup, B. & Ulrich, R. (2017). Die Beziehung zwischen sprachlicher und nicht-sprachlicher Kognition: Die Bedeutung von Repräsentationsformaten. Psychologische Rundschau 68, 115-130. doi:10.1026/0033-3042/a000354.
  • Öttl, B., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2017). Forming associations between language and sesorimotor traces during novel word learning. Language and Cognition 9, 156-171. 
  • Strozyk, J. V., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2017). Do I need to have my hands free to understand hand-related language? Investigating the functional relevance of experiential simulations. Psychological Research, 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s00426-017-0900-8. http://rdcu.be/uGB4
  • Wolter, S., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2017). Reading sentences describing high- or low-pitched auditory events: Only pianists show evidence for a horizontal space-pitch association. Psychological Research 81(6), 1213-1223
  • Berndt, E., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). Activating concepts by activating experiential traces: Investigations with a series of anagram solution tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-16. 
  • Bermeitinger, C., Kaup, B., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., Kunde, W., Müsseler, J., … & Ulrich, R. (2016). Positionspapier zur Lage der Allgemeinen Psychologie. Psychologische Rundschau 67, 1-5.
  • Dudschig, C., Mackenzie, I., Strozyk, J., Kaup. B. & Leuthold, H. (2016). The sounds of sentences: Differentiating the influence of physical sound, sound imagery, and linguistically implied sounds on physical sound processing. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 16, 940-961.
  • Dudschig, C., Maienborn, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). Is there a difference between stripy journeys and stripy ladybirds? The N400 response to semantic and world-knowledge violations during sentence processing. Brain and Cognition 103, 38-49.
  • Dudschig, C., Maienborn, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). These lemons are sour: Investigating the influence of demonstrative determiners on the N400 complex. Neuroscience Letters 630, 141-146. 
  • Günther, F., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). Latent Semantic Analysis cosines as a cognitive similarity measure: Evidence from priming studies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69, 626-653. 
  • Günther, F., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2016). Predicting lexical priming effects from distributional semantic similarities: A replication with extension. Frontiers in Psychology 7, art.nr. 1646. 
  • Günther, F. & Marelli, M. (2016). Understanding karma police: The perceived plausibility of noun compounds as predicted by distributional models of semantic representation. PLoS ONE 11: art.nr. e0163200. 
  • Kaup, B., de la Vega, I., Strozyk, J. & Dudschig, C. (2016). The role of sensorimotor processes in meaning composition. In M. H. Fischer & Y. Coello (Eds.), Foundations of Embodied Cognition, Vol. 2: Conceptual and Interactive Embodiment (pp. 46-70). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Lachmair, M., Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2016). Constructing meaning for up and down situated sentences: Is a sentence more than the sum of its words? Language and Cognition 8, 604-628. 
  • de la Vega, I., Graebe, J., Härtner, L., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2015). Starting off on the right foot: Strong right-footers respond faster with the right foot to positive words and with the left foot to negative words. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 292. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00292.
  • Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2015). What's up? Emotion-specific activation of vertical space during language processing. Acta Psychologica 156, 143-155.
  • Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2015). To fly or not to fly? The automatic influence of negation on language–space associations. Cognitive Processing 16(Suppl. 1), 203-207. 
  • Günther, F., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2015). LSAfun – An R package for computations based on Latent Semantic Analysis. Behavior Research Methods 47, 930-944.
  • Öttl, B., Jäger, G. & Kaup, B. (2015). Does formal complexity reflect cognitive complexity? Investigating aspects of the Chomsky hierarchy in an artificial language learning study. PLoS ONE 10: e0123059. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123059.
  • Ulrich, R., Maienborn, C. & Kaup, B. (2015). Understanding the meaning of words and sentences: The role of non-linguistic processes. Acta Psychologica 156, 97.
  • Wolter, S., Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2015). Musical metaphors: Evidence for a spatial grounding of non-literal sentences describing auditory events. Acta Psychologica 156, 126-135.
  • de la Vega, I., Dudschig, C., Lachmair, M. & Kaup, B. (2014). Being someone’s right hand doesn’t always feel right: Bodily experiences affect metaphoric language processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 29, 1227-1232.
  • Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I., De Filippis, M. & Kaup, B. (2014). Language and vertical space: On the automaticity of language action interconnections. Cortex 58, 151-160.
  • Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2014). Embodiment and second-language: Automatic activation of motor responses during processing spatially associated L2 words and emotion L2 words in a vertical Stroop paradigm. Brain and Language 132, 14-21.
  • Lachmair, M., Dudschig, C., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2014). Relating numeric cognition and language processing: Do numbers and words share a common representational platform? Acta Psychologica 148, 107-114.
  • Ahlberg, D. K., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2013). Effector specific response activation during word processing. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 133-138). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • de la Vega, I., De Filippis, M., Dudschig, C., Lachmair, M. & Kaup, B. (2013). Keep your hands crossed: The valence-by-left/right interaction is related to hand, not side, in an incongruent hand – response key assignment. Acta Psychologica 142, 273-277. 
  • Dudschig, C., Souman, J. & Kaup, B. (2013). Motion in vision and language: Seeing visual motion can influence processing of motion verbs. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2225-2230). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Dudschig, C., Souman, J., Lachmair, M., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2013). Reading "sun" and looking up: The influence of language on the planning of saccadic eye movements. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56872. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056872.
  • de la Vega, I., De Filippis, M., Lachmair, M., Dudschig, C. & Kaup, B. (2012). Emotional valence and physical space: Limits of interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 38, 375-385. 
  • Dudschig, C., Lachmair, M., de la Vega, I., De Filippis, M. & Kaup, B. (2012). From top to bottom: Spatial shifts of attention caused by linguistic stimuli. Cognitive Processing 13(Suppl. 1), 151-154. doi: 10.1007/s10339-012-0480-x.
  • Dudschig, C., Lachmair, M., de la Vega, I., De Filippis, M. & Kaup, B. (2012). Do task-irrelevant direction-associated motion verbs affect action planning? Evidence from a Stroop paradigm. Memory & Cognition. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0201-9.
  • Kaup, B., De Filippis, M., Lachmair, M., de la Vega, I. & Dudschig, C. (2012). When up-words meet down-sentences: Evidence for word- or sentence-based compatibility effects? Cognitive Processing 13(Suppl. 1), 203-207. doi: 10.1007/s10339-012-0453-0.
  • Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J. & Steiner, I. (2012). Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension. In B. Stolterfoht & S. Featherston (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Kelter, S., & Kaup, B. (2012). Conceptual knowledge, categorization, and meaning. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger & P. Portner (Eds.), Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Volume 3 (HSK 33.3), (pp. 2775-2805). Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Lachmair, M., Dudschig. C., De Filippis, M., de la Vega, I. & Kaup, B. (2011). Root versus roof: Automatic activation of location information during word processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 18, 1180-1188.
  • Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J. & Maienborn, C. (2010). "The drawer is still closed": Simulating past and future actions when processing sentences that describe a state. Brain and Language 112, 159-166.