Rolf Zwaan Professor Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 T-Building, Room T 13-40 Phone: 31-10-408-8647 zwaan@fsw.eur.nl Curriculum Vitae

	Language comprehension, embodied cognition http://eur.academia.edu/RolfZwaan

	Schneider, I.K., Eerland, A., van Harreveld, F., Rotteveel, M., van der Pligt, J., van der Stoep, N., & Zwaan, R.A. (in press). One way and the other: The bi-directional relationship between ambivalence and body movement. . Psychological Science.
	Post, L.S., Van Gog, T., Paas, F., & Zwaan, R.A. (2013). Effects of simultaneously observing and making gestures while studying grammar animations on cognitive load and learning. Computers in Human Behavior.
	Coppens, L.C., Gootjes, L., & Zwaan, R.A. (2012). Incidental picture exposure affects later reading: evidence from the N400.. Brain and Language. pdf
	Eerland, A., Guadalupe, T.M., Franken, I.H.A., & Zwaan, R.A. (2012). Posture as index for approach-avoidance behavior. PLoS ONE. pdf
	Eerland, A., Post, L.S., Rassin, E., Bouwmeester, S., & Zwaan, R.A. (2012). Out of sight, out of mind: the presence of forensic evidence counts more than its absence. Acta Psychologica. abstract pdf
	Vandeberg, L., Eerland, A., & Zwaan, R.A. (2012). Out of mind, out of sight: Language affects perceptual vividness in memory. PLoS ONE. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A., van der Stoep, N., Guadalupe, T., & Bouwmeester, S. (2012). Language comprehension in the balance: the robustness of the action-compatibility effect (ACE). PLoS ONE. pdf
	Eerland, A., Guadalupe, T.M., & Zwaan, R.A. (2011). Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller: Posture-modulated thought. Psychological Science. abstract
	Engelen, J.A.A., Bouwmeester, S., de Bruin, A.B.H., & Zwaan, R.A. (2011). Perceptual simulation in developing language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. abstract
	Gootjes, L.; Coppens, L.C.; Zwaan, R.A.; Franken, I.H.A.; Van Strien, J.W. (2011). Effects of recent word exposure on emotion-word Stroop interference: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology.
	Vandeberg, L., Guadalupe, T., & Zwaan, R.A. (2011). How verbs can activate things: Cross-language activation across word classes. Acta Psychologica. abstract
	Richter, T.; Zwaan, R.A. (2010). Integration of perceptual information in word access. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
	Taylor, L.J.; Zwaan, R.A. (2010). Grasping spheres, not planets. Cognition.
	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.
	Wassenburg, S.I.; Zwaan, R.A. (2010). Readers routinely represent implied object rotation: The role of visual experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
	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. abstract
	Louwerse, M.M.; Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Language encodes geographical information. Cognitive Science.
	Richter, T.; Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Processing of color words activates color representations. Cognition.
	Therriault, D.J.; Yaxley, R.H.; Zwaan, R.A. (2009). The role of color diagnosticity in object recognition and representation. Cognitive Processing.
	Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Mental simulation in language comprehension and social cognition. European Journal of Social Psychology. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A. (2009). Theory development in embodiment research: getting the timing right. European Journal of Social Psychology.
	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.
	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. abstract
	Fischer, M.H.; Zwaan, R.A. (Eds.) (2008). Grounding Cognition in Perception and Action. Special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
	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.
	Taylor, L.J.; Lev Ari, S.; Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Inferences about action engage action systems. Brain and Language. abstract
	Taylor, L.J.; Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Motor resonance and linguistic focus. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. abstract
	van Dantzig, S.; Pecher, D.; Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Approach and avoidance as action effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. abstract pdf
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A. (2008). Time in language, situation models, and mental simulations. Language Learning. abstract
	Dijkstra, K.; Kaschak, M.P.; Zwaan, R.A. (2007). Body posture facilitates retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognition. abstract
	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.
	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. abstract
	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.
	Yaxley, R.H.; Zwaan, R.A. (2007). Simulating visibility during language comprehension. Cognition. abstract
	Kaschak, M.P.; Zwaan, R.A.; Aveyard, M.; Yaxley, R.H. (2006). Perception of Auditory Motion Affects Language Processing. Cognitive Science. abstract
	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. 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. abstract
	Therriault, D.J.; Rinck, M; Zwaan, R.A. (2006). Assessing the influence of dimensional focus during situation model construction. Memory & Cognition.
	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.
	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.; Taylor, L.J. (2006). Seeing, acting, understanding: motor resonance in language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 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.
	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.
	Yaxley, R.H; Zwaan, R.A. (2005). Attentional bias affects change in detection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
	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.
	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. abstract
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Madden, C.J. (2004). Updating situation models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A.; Madden, C.J.; Yaxley, R.H.; Aveyard, M.E. (2004). Moving words: Dynamic mental representations in language comprehension. Cognitive Science. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A.; Yaxley, R.H. (2004). Lateralization of object-shape information in semantic processing. Cognition. abstract
	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. abstract
	Madden, C.J.; Zwaan, R.A. (2003). How does verb aspect constrain event representations? Memory & Cognition. abstract
	Radvansky, G.A.; Copeland, D.E.; Zwaan, R.A. (2003). Aging and functional spatial relations in comprehension and memory. Psychology and Aging.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Yaxley, R.H. (2003). Spatial iconicity affects semantic-relatedness judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A.; Yaxley, R.H. (2003). Hemispheric differences in semantic-relatedness judgments. Cognition. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A. (2002). An experiential view of language comprehension: implications for document design. Document Design.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Stanfield, R.A.; Yaxley, R.H. (2002). Language comprehenders mentally represent the shapes of objects. Psychological Science.
	Madden, C.J.; Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The impact of smoking urges on working memory performance. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. abstract
	Magliano, J.P; Miller, J.; Zwaan, R.A. (2001). Indexing space and time in film understanding. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
	Radvansky, G.A.; Zwaan, R.A.; Curiel, J.M.; Copeland, D.E. (2001). Situation models and aging. Psychology & Aging.
	Stanfield, R.A.; Zwaan, R.A. (2001). The effect of implied orientation derived from verbal context on picture recognition. Psychological Science.
	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.
	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.; Madden, C.J.; Whitten, S.N. (2000). The presence of an event in the narrated situation affects its availability to the comprehender. Memory & Cognition. abstract
	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. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A.; Truitt, T.P. (2000). Inhibition of smoking-related information in smokers and nonsmokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Embodied cognition, perceptual symbols, and situation models. Discourse Processes.
	Zwaan, R.A. (1999). Situation models: the mental leap into imagined worlds. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
	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. abstract
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Graesser, A.C. (1998). Introduction to special issue of SSR: Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Graesser, A.C. (Eds.) (1998). Constructing meaning during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Radvansky, G.A. (1998). Situation models in language and memory. Psychological Bulletin. abstract
	Zwaan, R.A.; Radvansky, G.A.; Hilliard, A.E.; Curiel, J.M. (1998). Constructing multidimensional situation models during reading. Scientific Studies of Reading.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Truitt, T.P. (1998). Smoking urges affect language processing. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
	Graesser, A.C.; Millis, K.K.; Zwaan, R.A. (1997). Discourse comprehension. Annual Review of Psychology.
	Magliano, J.P; Dijkstra, K.; Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Predictive inferences in movies. Discourse Processes.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A. (1996). Processing narrative time shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Brown, C.M. (1996). The influence of language proficiency and comprehension skill on situation model construction. Discourse Processes.
	Dijkstra, K.; Zwaan, R.A.; Magliano, J.P.; Graesser, A.C. (1995). Reader and character emotions in literary narrative. Poetics.
	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.
	Person, N.K.; Kreuz, R.J.; Zwaan, R.A.; Graesser., A.C. (1995). Pragmatics. Cognition and Instruction.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Langston, M.C.; Graesser, A.C. (1995). The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension: an event-indexing model. Psychological Science.
	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.
	Dijkstra, K.; Zwaan, R.A.; Graesser, A.C.; Magliano, J.P. (1994). Character and Reader Emotions in Literary Texts. Poetics.
	Van Oostendorp, H.; Zwaan, R.A. (1994). Naturalistic text comprehension. Advances in Discourse Processing, Vol. LIII.. 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. (1994). Effect of genre expectations on text comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A. (1993). Aspects of literary comprehension: A cognitive approach. John Benjamins.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A.; Van Oostendorp, H. (1993). Do readers construct spatial representations in naturalistic story comprehension? Discourse Processes.
	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. 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.
	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.
	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.
	Zwaan, R.A. (1987). The computer in perspective: towards a relevant use of the computer in literary studies. Poetics.

		Fellow, Society for Text and Discourse 2010
		Named Professorship 2006 Named "the F.C. Donders Professor of Psychology", Florida State University
		Sensorimotor processes in language processing 2005 National Science Foundation (USA) $140,000 (with Mike Kaschak)
		Fellow 2003 Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany
		Perceptual aspects of language comprehension 2002 National Institute of Mental Health (USA) $735,000.00
		Fellow 2002 American Psychological Association, Division 3
		Developing Scholar Award 1999 Florida State University
		Smoking addiction and higher-level cognitive processes 1998 National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA $382,423.00
		Smoking addiction and language processing 1996 National Institute on Drug Abuse (USA) $47,065
		First-year assistant professor award 1995 Florida State University $14,000