Carol Madden
former labmember

Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
T-Building, Room T12-46

Phone: 010-4088689
madden@fsw.eur.nl

Curriculum Vitae
 
  My research employs both behavioral and neuroscience methodologies to investigate the embodied and modality-specific nature of language representations. This research demonstrates how we use cues such as grammar to activate appropriate meanings, and how these resulting representations mirror our real perceptual-motor experience.

Keywords: Language Comprehension, Embodied Cognition, Verb Aspect

Lab page: memorylab

 
Madden C.J. & Ferretti, T.R. (in press). Verb Aspect and Event Representation. In P. Li & W. Klein The Expression of Time in Language (pp xx-xx). Mouton de Gruyter, .
Madden, C.J. & Therriault, D.J. (in press). How Does Verb Aspect Constrain Perceptual Representations?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. abstract
Madden, C.J., Hoen, M., & Dominey, P.F. (in press). A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Embodied Language for Human-Robot Cooperation. Brain and Language. abstract
 
Madden, C. & Dijkstra, K. (2010). Contextual Constraints in Situation Model Construction: An Investigation of Age and Reading Span. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 17, 19-34. abstract
 
Marmolejo-Ramos, F., de Juan, M.R.E., Gygax, P., Madden, C.J., & Mosquera, S. (2009). Reading between the lines: The activation of embodied background knowledge during text comprehension. Pragmatics & Cognition, 17, 77–107. abstract
 
Kaup, B., Yaxley, R.H., Madden, C.J., Zwaan, R.A., & Lüdtke, J. (2007). Experiential simulations of negated text information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 976-990. abstract
 
Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2006). Perceptual Representation as a Mechanism of Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: An Investigation of Span and Processing Time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 1291-1303. abstract
 
Kaschak, M.P, Madden, C.J., Therriault, D.J., Yaxley, R.H., Aveyard, M., & Blanchard A.A. Zwaan, R.A (2005). Perception of motion affects language processing. Cognition, 94, B79-B89. abstract
Zwaan, R.A. & Madden, C.J. (2005). Embodied sentence comprehension. In Pecher, D. & Zwaan, R.A. (Eds.) Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. (pp 224-245). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
 
Dijkstra, K., Yaxley, R.H., Madden, C.J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2004). The role of age and perceptual symbols in language comprehension. Psychology & Aging, 19, 352-356. abstract
Zwaan, R.A. & Madden, C.J. (2004). Updating situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 283-288. abstract
Zwaan, R.A., Madden, C.J., Yaxley, R.H., & Aveyard, M.E. (2004). Moving words: Dynamic mental representations in language comprehension. Cognitive Science, 28, 611-619. abstract
 
Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). How does verb aspect constrain event representations? Memory & Cognition, 31, 663-672. abstract
 
Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The impact of smoking urges on working memory performance. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9, 418-422. abstract
Zwaan, R.A., Madden, C.J., & Stanfield, R.A. (2001). Time in narrative comprehension. In Schram, D.H., & Steen, G.J. (Eds.) Psychology and Sociology of Literature (pp 71-86). John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
 
Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., & Madden, C.J. (2000). How persistent is the effect of smoking urges on cognitive performance? Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 8, 518-523. abstract
Zwaan, R.A., Madden, C.J., & Whitten, S.N. (2000). The presence of an event in the narrated situation affects its availability to the comprehender. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1022-1028. abstract
 
Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., & Madden, C.J. (1999). Perceptual symbols in language comprehension: can an empirical case be made? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 636-637. abstract

 
Research Fellowship Award
2005
Research Fellowship Award in the amount of €200,000 from the Erasmus University Rotterdam for talented young scientific researchers.

Outstanding Student Paper Award
2003
Received at the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid, Spain.