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    Symbols and embodiment: debates on meaning and cognition (edited book)
    with Arthur M. Glenberg and Arthur C. Graesser
    Oxford University Press. 2008.
    Cognitive scientists have a variety of approaches to studying cognition: experimental psychology, computer science, robotics, neuroscience, educational psychology, philosophy of mind, and psycholinguistics, to name but a few. In addition, they also differ in their approaches to cognition - some of them consider that the mind works basically like a computer, involving programs composed of abstract, amodal, and arbitrary symbols. Others claim that cognition is embodied - that is, symbols must be g…Read more
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    Embodiment in language-based memory: Some qualifications
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1): 22-23. 1997.
    (1) Non-projectable properties as opposed to the clamping of projectable properties play a primary role in triggering and guiding human action. (2) Embodiment in language-mediated memories should be qualified: (a) Language imposes a radical discretization on body constraints (second-order embodiment). (b) Metaphors rely on second-order embodiment. (c) Language users sometimes suspend embodiment.
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    Corrections: A Comprehensive View
    with Ira J. Silverman
    Cengage Learning. 1996.
    This text covers corrections explicitly. It presents a history of prisons, the history of corrections programs, and theories of punishment and corrections. It includes sections on prisoner rights, probation, juvenile corrections, and international corrections systems.
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    Negation markers inhibit motor routines during typing of manual action verbs
    with Enrique García-Marco, Yurena Morera, David Beltrán, Eduar Herrera, Lucas Sedeño, Agustín Ibáñez, and Adolfo M. García
    Cognition 182 (C): 286-293. 2019.
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    Are Sensory-Motor Relationships Encoded ad hoc or by Default?: An ERP Study
    with Yurena Morera, Maartje van der Meij, and Horacio A. Barber
    Frontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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    Language switching may facilitate the processing of negative responses
    with Anqi Zang, Yang Fu, Huili Wang, and David Beltrán
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    It has been proposed that processing sentential negation recruits the neural network of inhibitory control. In addition, inhibition mechanisms also play a role in switching languages for bilinguals. Since both processes may share inhibitory resources, the current study explored for the first time whether and how language-switching influences the processing of negation. To this end, two groups of Spanish-English bilinguals participated in an encoding-verification memory task. They read short stor…Read more
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    The negation-induced forgetting effect remains even after reducing associative interference
    with Anqi Zang, David Beltrán, Huili Wang, and Katia Rolán González
    Cognition 235 (C): 105412. 2023.
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    Corrigendum: Exploring the Co-occurrence of Manual Verbs and Actions in Early Mother-Child Communication
    with María José Rodrigo and Mercedes Muñetón-Ayala
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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    Exploring the Co-occurrence of Manual Verbs and Actions in Early Mother-Child Communication
    with María José Rodrigo and Mercedes Muñetón-Ayala
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
    The embodiment approach has shown that motor neural networks are involved in the processing of action verbs. There is developmental evidence that embodied effects on verb processing are already present in early years. Yet, the ontogenetic origin of this motor reuse in action verbs remains unknown. This longitudinal study investigates the co-occurrence of manual verbs and actions during mother-child daily routines when children were 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 years old. Eight mother-child dyads were video…Read more
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    Models of Visuospatial Cognition
    with Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Michel Denis, and Marc Marscharck
    Oxford University Press USA. 1996.
    This second volume in the Counterpoints Series focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. The editors provide a historical and theoretical introduction and offer ideas about directions and new research designs.