Rolf Zwaan
professor
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
T-Building, Room T 13-40
Phone: 31-10-408-8647
zwaan@fsw.eur.nl
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Rolf Zwaan | Curriculum Vitae | |
| Language comprehension, embodied cognition | ||
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| Wassenburg, S.I. & Zwaan, R.A. (in press). Readers routinely represent implied object rotation: The role of visual experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. | |
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| Richter, T. & Zwaan, R.A. (2010). Integration of perceptual information in word access. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 81–107. | |
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| Taylor, L.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2010). Grasping spheres, not planets. Cognition, 115, 39-45. | ||
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| Van Elk, M, Van Schie, H.T., Zwaan, R.A., & Bekkering, H. (2010). The functional role of motor activation in language processing: motor cortical oscillations support lexical-semantic retrieval. Neuroimage, 50 , 665-677. | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A., Taylor, L.J., & de Boer, M (2010). Motor resonance as a function of narrative time: further tests of the linguistic focus hypothesis. Brain and Language, 112, 143-149. abstract | ||
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| Louwerse, M.M. & Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Language encodes geographical information. Cognitive Science, 33, 51-73. | |
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| 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 | ||
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| Richter, T. & Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Processing of color words activates color representations. Cognition, 111, 383-389. | ||
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| Richter, T., Zwaan, R. A., & Hoever, I. (2009). Acquiring experiential traces in word-referent learning. Memory & Cognition, 87, 1187-1196. | ||
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| Taylor, L. J. & Zwaan, R. A. (2009). Action in cognition: The case of language. Language and Cognition, 1, 45-58. abstract | ||
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| Therriault, D.J., Yaxley, R.H., & Zwaan, R.A. (2009). The role of color diagnosticity in object recognition and representation. Cognitive Processing, 10, 335-342. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Kaschak, M.P. (2009). Language comprehension as a means of "re-situating" oneself. In Robbins, P. & Aydede, M. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. (pp 368-381). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. | |||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Mental simulation in language comprehension and social cognition. European Journal of Social Psychology, 7, 1142 - 1150. abstract | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Theory development in embodiment research: getting the timing right. European Journal of Social Psychology, 7, 1160-1161. | ||
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| Fischer, M.H. & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Embodied language: a review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 825-850. abstract | |
| Fischer, M.H. & Zwaan, R.A. (Eds.) (2008). Grounding Cognition in Perception and Action. Special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 825-957. | |||
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| Kamalski, J., Lentz, L., Sanders, T., & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). The forewarning effect of coherence markers in persuasive discourse: evidence from persuasion and processing. Discourse Processes, 45, 545-579. | ||
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| Taylor, L.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Motor resonance and linguistic focus. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 896-904. abstract | ||
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| Taylor, L.J., Lev Ari, S., & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Inferences about action engage action systems. Brain and Language, 107, 62-67. abstract | ||
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| van Dantzig, S., Pecher, D., & Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Approach and avoidance as action effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1298-1306. abstract | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Experiential traces and mental simulations in language comprehension. In DeVega, M., Glenberg, A.M., & Graesser, A.C. (Eds.) Symbols, embodiment, and meaning (pp 165-180). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Time in language, situation models, and mental simulations. Language Learning, 58, 13-26. abstract | ||
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| Dijkstra, K., Kaschak, M.P., & Zwaan, R.A. (2007). Body posture facilitates retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognition, 102, 139-149. abstract | |
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| Hancock, A.B, LaPointe, L.L., Stierwalt, J.A.G, Bourgeois, M., & Zwaan, R.A. (2007). Computerized measures of verbal working memory performance in healthy elderly participants. Contemporary Issues in Communication Disorders, 34, 73-85. | ||
| Kaup, B., Zwaan, R.A., & Lüdtke, J (2007). The experiential view of language comprehension. How is negation represented? In Schmalhofer, F. & Perfetti, C.A. (Eds.) Higher language processes in the brain: Inference and comprehension processes. (pp 255-288). Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. | |||
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| 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 | ||
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| Yaxley, R.H. & Zwaan, R.A. (2007). Simulating visibility during language comprehension. Cognition, 150, 229-236. abstract | ||
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| Kaschak, M.P., Zwaan, R.A., Aveyard, M., & Yaxley, R.H. (2006). Perception of Auditory Motion Affects Language Processing. Cognitive Science, 30, 733-744. abstract | |
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| Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2006). Processing negated sentences with contradictory predicates: Is a door that is not open mentally closed?. Journal of Pragmatics, 38, 1033-1050. abstract | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| Therriault, D.J., Rinck, M, & Zwaan, R.A. (2006). Assessing the influence of dimensional focus during situation model construction. Memory & Cognition, 34, 78-89. | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. & Taylor, L.J. (2006). Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 1-11. abstract | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Rapp, D.N. (2006). Discourse comprehension. In M.A. Gersbacher & M.J. Traxler (Eds.) Handbook of psycholinguistics, 2nd Edition. (pp 725-764). Elsevier, San Diego, CA. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Kaschak, M.P. (2006). Language, visual cognition and motor action. In Brown, K. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd ed., vol 6. (pp 648-651). Elsevier, Oxford, UK. | |||
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| 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 | |
| Kaup, B., Lüdtke, J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Effects of negation: truth value, and delay on picture recognition after reading affirmative and neg In Bara, B.G., Barsalou, L.W., & Bucciarelli, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp 1114-1119). Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Radvansky, G.A., Copeland, D.E., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). A novel study: investigating the structure of narrative and autobiographical memories. Memory, 13, 796-814. | |||
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| Sundermeier, B.A., van den Broek, P., & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Casual coherence and the availability of locations and objects during narrative comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 33, 462-470. | ||
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| Yaxley, R.H & Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Attentional bias affects change in detection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1106-1111. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Situation Model. In D. Herman, M. Jahn & M.L. Ryan (Eds.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (pp ). Routledge, London. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. (2005). The mental leap into imaginary worlds. In B.A. Spellman & D.T. Willingham (Eds.) Current Directions in Cognitive Science (pp 146-151). Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle Rive, NJ. | |||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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 | |
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| Zwaan, R.A. & Madden, C.J. (2004). Updating situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 283-288. abstract | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (2004). The immersed experiencer: toward an embodied theory of language comprehension. In B.H. Ross (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp 35-62). Academic Press, New York. | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. & Yaxley, R.H. (2004). Lateralization of object-shape information in semantic processing. Cognition, 94, B35-B43. abstract | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| Kaup, B. & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). Effects of negation and situational presence on the accessibility of text information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 439-446. abstract | |
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| Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). How does verb aspect constrain event representations? Memory & Cognition, 31, 663-672. abstract | ||
| Radvansky, G.A., Copeland, D.E., & Zwaan, R.A. (2003). Aging and functional spatial relations in comprehension and memory. Psychology and Aging, 18, 161-165. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Dijkstra, K. (2003). Literacy: narrative comprehension and production. In Guthrie, J.W. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed (pp 1500-1504). MacMillan Reference, New York. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Singer, M. (2003). Text comprehension. In Graesser, A.C., Gernsbacher, M.A., & Goldman, S.R (Eds.) Handbook of discourse processes (pp 83-121). Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. | |||
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| Zwaan, R.A. & Yaxley, R.H. (2003). Spatial iconicity affects semantic-relatedness judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 954-958. abstract | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. & Yaxley, R.H. (2003). Hemispheric differences in semantic-relatedness judgments. Cognition, 31, B79-B86. abstract | ||
 | Zwaan, R.A., Radvansky, G.A., & Whitten, S.N. (2002). Themes and situation models. In Lauwerse, M., & van Peer , W. (Eds.) Thematics: Interdisciplinary studies (pp 35-53). John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A., Stanfield, R.A., & Yaxley, R.H. (2002). Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects. Psychological Science, 13, 168-171. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. (2002). An experiential view of language comprehension: implications for document design. Document Design, 3, 54-64. | |||
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| Madden, C.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The impact of smoking urges on working memory performance. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9, 418-422. abstract | |
| Magliano, J.P, Miller, J., & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). Indexing space and time in film understanding. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 533-545. | |||
| Radvansky, G.A., Zwaan, R.A., Curiel, J.M., & Copeland, D.E. (2001). Situation models and aging. Psychology & Aging, 16, 145-160. | |||
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| Stanfield, R.A. & Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The effect of implied orientation derived from verbal context on picture recognition. Psychological Science, 12, 153-156. | ||
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| 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. (2001). Situation models. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp 14137-14141). Pergamon Press, Amsterdam. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. (2001). Language comprehension as guided experience. In Degand, L., Bestgen, Y., Spooren, W. & van Waes, L. (Eds.) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse (pp 1-9). Uitgaven Stichting Neerlandistiek VU, Amsterdam. | |||
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| 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 | |
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| 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. & Truitt, T.P. (2000). Inhibition of smoking-related information in smokers and nonsmokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 8, 192–197. | |||
 | Magliano, J.P, Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser, A.C. (1999). The role of situational continuity in narrative understanding. In S.R. Goldman & H. van Oostendorp (Eds.) The construction of mental representations during reading (pp 219-245). Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Five dimensions of situation-model construction. In S.R. Goldman, A.C. Graesser, and P. Van den Broek (Eds.) Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence: Essays in honor of Tom Trabasso (pp 93-110). Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. | |||
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| 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 | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Embodied cognition, perceptual symbols, and situation models. Discourse Processes, 28, 81-88. | ||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Situation models: the mental leap into imagined worlds. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 15-18. | ||
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| Radvansky, G.A., Zwaan, R.A., Franklin, N., & Federico, T. (1998). Retrieval from temporally organized situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1224-1237. | |
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| Zwaan, R.A. & Radvansky, G.A. (1998). Situation models in language and memory. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 162-185. abstract | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Truitt, T.P. (1998). Smoking urges affect language processing. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6, 325-330. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Graesser, A.C. (1998). Introduction to special issue of SSR: Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 195-198. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A., Radvansky, G.A., Hilliard, A.E., & Curiel, J.M. (1998). Constructing multidimensional situation models during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 199-220. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Graesser, A.C. (Eds.) (1998). Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2, 195-300. | |||
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| Graesser, A.C., Millis, K.K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1997). Discourse comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology, 48, 163-189. | |
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| Magliano, J.P, Dijkstra, K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Predictive inferences in movies. Discourse Processes, 22, 199-224. | |
| Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Towards a model of literary comprehension. In B.K. Britton & A.C. Graesser (Eds.) Models of understanding text (pp 241-255). Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. (1996). How empirical is the empirical study of literature? In H. Hendrix, J.J. Kloek, S.A. Levie, and W. van Peer (Eds.) The search for a new alphabet (pp 321-326). Benjamins, Amsterdam. | |||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Processing narrative time shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 1196-1207. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Brown, C.M. (1996). The influence of language proficiency and comprehension skill on situation model construction. Discourse Processes, 21, 289-327. | |||
 | Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R.A., Magliano, J.P., & Graesser, A.C. (1995). Reader and character emotions in literary narrative. Poetics, 23, 39-157. | ||
| Graesser, A. C., Kassler, M. A., Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R.A., & McLain Allen, B. (1995). Comprehending novel mental models of time in Einstein’s Dreams. In G. Rusch (Ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature. (pp ). Siegen University Press, Siegen, Germany. | |||
| Graesser, A.C. & Zwaan, R.A. (1995). Inference generation and the construction of situation models. In C. Weaver, S. Mannes, & C.R. Fletcher (Eds.) Discourse comprehension: Strategies and processes revisited. Essays in (pp 117-139). Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. | |||
| Kneepkens, E.W & Zwaan, R.A. (1995). Emotions and literary text. Poetics, 23, 125-138. | |||
| Person, N.K., Kreuz, R.J., Zwaan, R.A., & Graesser., A.C. (1995). Pragmatics. Cognition and Instruction, 13, 161-188. | |||
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| Zwaan, R.A., Langston, M.C., & Graesser, A.C. (1995). The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension: an event-indexing model. Psychological Science, 6, 292-297. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A., Magliano, J.P., & Graesser, A.C. (1995). Dimensions of situation-model construction in narrative comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 386-397. | |||
 | Dijkstra, K., Zwaan, R.A., Graesser, A.C., & Magliano, J.P. (1994). Character and Reader Emotions in Literary Texts. Poetics, 23, 139-157. | ||
| Van Oostendorp, H. & Zwaan, R.A. (1994). Naturalistic text comprehension. Advances in Discourse Processing, Vol. LIII. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. |  | ||
| Van Oostendorp, H. & Zwaan, R.A. (1994). Naturalistic texts and naturalistic tasks. In H. van Oostendorp, & R.A. Zwaan (Eds.) Naturalistic text comprehension (pp 1-8). Ablex, Norwood. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Van Oostendorp, H. (1994). Spatial information and naturalistic story comprehension. In H. van Oostendorp, & R.A. Zwaan (Eds.) Naturalistic text comprehension (pp 97-114). Ablex, Norwood. | |||
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| Zwaan, R.A. (1994). Effect of genre expectations on text comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 920-933. | ||
 | Zwaan, R.A. (1993). Aspects of literary comprehension: A cognitive approach. John Benjamins. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Van Oostendorp, H. (1993). Do readers construct spatial representations in naturalistic story comprehension? Discourse Processes, 16, 125-143. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Graesser, A.C. (1993). Reading goals and situation models: A commentary on Glenberg & Mathew. Psycoloquy. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Graesser, A.C. (1993). There is no empirical evidence that inferences are generated automatically or partially: A commentar. Psycoloquy. | |||
 | Nederhof, A.J. & Zwaan, R.A. (1991). Quality judgments of journals as indicators of research performance in the humanities and the social sciences: results of an international mail-survey. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42, 332-340. abstract | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. (1991). The literary situational-action model and the comprehension process. In E. Ibsch, D.H. Schram, and G.J. Steen (Eds.) Empirical studies of literature (pp 167-174). Rodopi, Amsterdam. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. (1991). Conventie (Convention). In W. van Peer & K. Dijkstra (Eds.) Sleutelwoorden: kernbegrippen uit de hedendaagse literatuurwetenschap (pp 24-33). Garant, Leuven, Belgium. | |||
| Zwaan, R.A. (1991). Some parameters of literary and news comprehension: Poetics, 20, 139-156. | |||
 | Zwaan, R.A. & Meutsch, D. (1990). Computer models and technology in media research. Elsevier Science Publishers. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. & Nederhof, A.J. (1990). Some aspects of scholarly communication. Language, 66, 553-557. | |||
 | Nederhof, A.J., Zwaan, R.A., de Bruin, R.E., & Dekker, P.J. (1989). Assessing the usefulness of bibliometric indicators of the humanities and the social and behavioral Scientometrics, 15, 423-435. | ||
| Zwaan, R.A. (1987). The computer in perspective: towards a relevant use of the computer in literary studies. Poetics, 16, 553-568. | |||
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Fellow, Society for Text and Discourse 2010 |
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Named Professorship 2006 Named "the F.C. Donders Professor of Psychology", Florida State University |
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Sensorimotor processes in language processing 2005 National Science Foundation (USA) $140,000 (with Mike Kaschak) |
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Fellow 2003 Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany |
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Perceptual aspects of language comprehension 2002 National Institute of Mental Health (USA) $735,000.00 |
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Fellow 2002 American Psychological Association, Division 3 |
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Developing Scholar Award 1999 Florida State University |
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Smoking addiction and higher-level cognitive processes 1998 National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA $382,423.00 |
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Smoking addiction and language processing 1996 National Institute on Drug Abuse (USA) $47,065 |
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First-year assistant professor award 1995 Florida State University $14,000 |