Diane Pecher
associate professor

Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
T-Building, Room T12-33

Phone: 010-408 8625
pecher@fsw.eur.nl

 
  My research has focused on the representation and retrieval of conceptual knowledge. Within this broad area I have investigated several topics.

Lab page: memorylab

 
Boot, I. & Pecher, D. (in press). Representation of categories:Metaphorical use of the container schema. Experimental Psychology.
 
Boot, I. & Pecher, D (2010). Similarity is closeness: metaphorical mapping in a conceptual task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 942-954. abstract
 
Camp, G., Pecher, D., Schmidt, H.G., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Are independent cues truly independent?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35, 934-942. abstract
Pecher, D., van Dantzig, S., Zwaan, R. A., & Zeelenberg, R (2009). Language Comprehenders Retain Implied Shape and Orientation of Objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1108-1114. abstract
Pecher, D., de Rooij, J., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Does a pear growl? Interference from semantic properties of orthographic neighbors. Memory & Cognition, 37, 541-546. abstract
Pecher, D., Van Dantzig, S., & Schifferstein, H. N. J. (2009). Concepts are not represented by imagery. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 914-919. abstract
van Dantzig, S., Zeelenberg, R., & Pecher, D. (2009). Unconstraining theories of embodied cognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 345-351. abstract
 
Boot, I. & Pecher, D. (2008). Word recognition is affected by the meaning of orthographic neighbors: Evidence from semantic decision tasks. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 375-393. abstract
van Dantzig, S., Pecher, D., & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Approach and avoidance as action effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1298-1306. abstract
Van Dantzig, S., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L.W. (2008). Perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. Cognitive Science, 32, 579 - 590. abstract
 
Camp, G., Pecher, D., & Schmidt, H. G. (2007). No retrieval-induced forgetting using item-specific independent cues: Evidence against a general inhibitory account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 950-958. abstract
Pecher, D., Zanolie, K., & Zeelenberg, R. (2007). Verifying visual properties in sentence verification facilitates picture recognition memory. Experimental Psychology, 54, 173-179. abstract
 
Barsalou, L.W., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Simmons, W.K., & Hamann, S.B. (2005). Multi-modal simulation in conceptual processing. In W. Ahn, R. Goldstone, B. Love, A. Markman, & P. Wolff (Eds.) Categorization inside and outside the lab: A festschrift in honor of Douglas L. Medin (pp 249-270). American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Camp, G., Pecher, D., & Schmidt, H.G. (2005). Retrieval-induced forgetting in implicit memory tests: The role of test awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 490-494. abstract
Pecher, D. & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Grounding Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking : Cambridge University Press. abstract
Pecher, D. & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Introduction to grounding cognition. In Pecher, D. & Zwaan, R.A. (Eds.) Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. (pp 1-7). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Wagenmakers, E.M. (2005). Enemies and friends in the neighborhood: orthographic similarity effects in semantic categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 121-128. abstract
Zeelenberg, R., Boot, I., & Pecher, D. (2005). Activating the critical lure during study is unnecessary for false recognition. Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 316-326. abstract
 
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L.W. (2004). Sensorimotor simulations underlie conceptual representations: modality-specific effects of prior activation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 164-167. abstract
Pecher, D. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2004). Priming for new associations in animacy decision: Evidence for context dependency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 1211-1231. abstract
 
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L.W. (2003). Verifying different-modality properties for concepts produces switching costs. Psychological Science, 14, 119-124. abstract
Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2003). Associative repetition priming: A selective review and theoretical implications. In J. Bowers and C. Marsolek (Eds.) Rethinking implicit memory (pp 261-283). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D., Shiffrin, R.M., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2003). Semantic context effects and priming in word association. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 653-660. abstract
Zeelenberg, R. & Pecher, D. (2003). Evidence for long-term cross-language repetition priming in conceptual implicit memory tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 80-94. abstract
 
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2002). Associative priming in a masked perceptual identification task: Evidence for automatic processes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 1157-1173. abstract
Zeelenberg, R. & Pecher, D. (2002). False memories and lexical decision: Even twelve primes do not cause long-term semantic priming. Acta Psychologica, 109, 269-284. abstract
 
Pecher, D. (2001). Perception is a two-way junction: Feedback semantics in word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 545-551. abstract
 
Pecher, D. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1999). Automatic priming effects for new associations in lexical decision and perceptual identification. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 593-614. abstract
 
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1998). Does pizza prime coin? Perceptual priming in lexical decision and pronunciation. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 401-418. abstract
Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D., de Kok, D., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1998). Inhibition from nonword primes in lexical decision reexamined: The critical influence of instruction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1068-1079. abstract
 
Pecher, D. & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1996). Episodisch en semantisch geheugen: Twee gescheiden systemen? Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie, 51, 51-61.