Symbols and Embodiment
Debates on meaning and cognition
Edited by Manuel de Vega, Arthur Glenberg, and Arthur Graesser
Author Information
Manuel de Vega graduated in Psychology at the University Complutense of Madrid. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Psycholinguists. Dr. de Vega's research is in the area of language comprehension, and the neurological bases of meaning.
Arthur Glenberg received his BA in Psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Before moving to Arizona State University in 2008, he was a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Glenberg's research is in the areas of memory and language comprehension, and he is regarded as one of the foremost proponents of the embodied approach to language. Dr. Graesser is a full professor in the Department of Psychology, adjunct professor in Computer Science, and co-Director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. Dr. Graesser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego and has been a visiting researcher at Yale University, Stanford University, and Carnegie Mellon University. His primary research interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences. One goal of his research is to integrate psychological theories of learning, language and discourse processing with computer technologies, such as AutoTutor, Coh-Metrix, QUEST, and Question Understanding Aid (QUEST).
Contributors:
Lawrence W Barsalou, Dept of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Manuel de Vega, Dept of Cognitive Psychology, La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain
Arthur M Glenberg, Dept of Psychology University of Arizona, Tempe, USA
Robert Goldstone, Dept of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Antoni Gomila, Psychology Department, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Arthur C Graesser, Dept of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
G Tanner Jackson, Dept of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
Patrick Jeuniaux, Dept of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
Marcel A Just, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Walter Kintsch, Institute of Cognitive Science, Boulder CO, USA
Andreas Knoblauch, Honda Research Institute, Offenbach, Germany
David Landy, Dept of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Max Louwerse, Dept of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
Sarita Mehta, Dept of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Mitchell J Nathan, Dept of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Friedemann Pulvermuller, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Deb Roy, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge MA, USA
Anthony J Sanford, Dept of Psychology., University of Glasgow, UK
Ava Santos, Dept of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Lawrence Shapiro, Dept of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
W Kyle Simmons, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA
Ji Y Son, Dept of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Luc Steels, VUB AI Lb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Christine D Wilson, Dept of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Rolf A Zwaan, Dept of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
