Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Ratings of body–object interaction (BOI) measure the ease with which the human body can
interact with a word's referent. Researchers have studied the effects of BOI in order to …

Visual emotionally charged stimuli have been shown to elicit early electrophysiological
responses (eg, Ihssen, Heim, & Keil, 2007; Schupp, Junghöfer, Weike, & Hamm, 2003; …

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor
information in lexical–semantic processing is to examine the effects of words' rated body …

Previous studies have shown effects of rated danger and usefulness on lexical access. All of
them have used stimuli selected for connotations of danger and/or usefulness. Stimuli for the …

In spelling-to-dictation tasks, skilled spellers consistently initiate spelling of high-frequency
words faster than that of low-frequency words. Tainturier and Rapp's model of spelling …

Established emotion frameworks are built on dimensions like valence/evaluation
(pleasant/good vs. unpleasant/bad). Ambiguity about how to interpret such dimensions led …

In this chapter, we survey the processes of recognizing and producing words and of
understanding and creating sentences. Theory and research on these topics have been …