Recent Publications
(Clicking on any of the highlighted citations below opens a new window containing the PDF file of that paper)
2011
Cattaneo, L., Barchiesi, G., Tabarelli, D., Arfeller, C., Sato, M., & Glenberg, A. M. (2011). One’s motor performance predictably modulates the understanding of others’actions through adaptation of premotor visuo-motor neurons. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 301-310, doi:10.1093/scan/nsq099.
Glenberg, A. M. (2011). How reading comprehension is embodied and why that matters. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 4, 5-18.
Glenberg, A. M., & Gallese, V. (2011). Action-based Language: A theory of language acquisition, comprehension, and production. Cortex, doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2011.04.010.
Glenberg, A. M., Goldberg, A., Zhu, X. (2011). Improving early reading comprehension using embodied CAI. Instructional Science, 39, 27- 39. DOI 10.1007/s11251-009-9096-7.
Glenberg, A. M., Willford, J., Gibson, B. R., Goldberg, A. B., Zhu, X. (2011). Improving reading to improve math. Scientific Studies of Reading, DOI 10.1080/10888438.2011.564245.
Marley, S. C. , Szabo, Z., Levin, J. R., & Glenberg, A. M.(2011). Investigation of an Activity-Based Text-Processing Strategy in Mixed-Age Child Dyads. The Journal of Experimental Education, 79: 3, 340-360.
Sato, M., Brisebois, A., Grabski, K., Basirat, A, Ménard, L, Glenberg, A. M., & Cattaneo, L. (in press). Articulatory bias in speech categorization: Evidence from use-induced motor plasticity. Cortex, doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2011.03.009. Supplementary materials for Sato et al.
The Mirror Neuron Forum
Glenberg, A. M. (2011). Introduction to the Mirror Neuron Forum. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 363-368. DOI: 10.1177/1745691611412386
Gallese, V., Gernsbacher, M. A., Heyes, C., Hickok, G., Iacoboni, M. (2011). Mirror Neuron Forum. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 369-407. DOI: 10.1177/1745691611413392
Glenberg, A. M. (2011). Positions in the mirror are close than they appear. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 408-410. DOI: 10.1177/1745691611413393
2010
Cattaneo, L., Barchiesi, G., Tabarelli, D., Arfeller, C., Sato, M., & Glenberg, A. M. (in press).One’s motor performance predictably modulates the understanding of others’actions through adaptation of premotor visuo-motor neurons. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Glenberg, A. M. (2010). Embodiment as a unifying perspective for psychology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 586-596.
Glenberg AM, Lopez-Mobilia G, McBeath M, Toma M, Sato M and Cattaneo L (2010). Knowing beans: Human mirror mechanisms revealed through motor adaptation. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 4:206. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00206
Havas, D. A., Glenberg, A. M., Gutowski, K. A., Lucarelli, M. J., & Davidson, R. J. (2010). Cosmetic use of botulinum toxin-A affects processing of emotional language. Psychological Science, 21, 895-900.
Killeen, P. R., & Glenberg, A. M. (2010). Resituating cognition. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 4, 66-85.
Marley, S. C., Levin, J. R., & Glenberg, A. M. (2010). What cognitive benefits does an activity-based reading strategy afford young Native American readers? Journal of Experimental Education, 78, 395-417.
Marsh ER and Glenberg AM (2010). The embodied statistician. Front. Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00184.
Rueschemeyer S, Glenberg AM, Kaschak M, Mueller K and Friederici A (2010). Top-down and bottom-up contributions to understanding sentences describing objects in motion. Front. Psychology doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00183.
2009
Brown, M. C., McNeil, N. M., & Glenberg, A. M. (in press). Using concreteness in education: Real problems, potential solutions. Child Development Perspectives.
Glenberg, A. M. (2009). Prediction and emotion in dialog. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1169-1172.
Glenberg, A. M., Webster, B. J., Mouilso, E., & Lindeman, L. M. (2009). Gender, emotion, and the embodiment of language comprehension. Emotion Review, 1, 151-161.
Glenberg, A. M., Becker, R., Klötzer, S., Kolanko, L, Müller , S., Rinck, M. (2009). Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Language and Cogntion, 1, 113-135.
Glenberg, A. M., Goldberg, A., Zhu, X. (2011). Improving early reading comprehension using embodied CAI. Instructional Science, 39, 27- 39. embodied_cai_2011.pdf
Glenberg, A. M., Lopez-Mobilia, G., Toma, M., McBeath, M., Sato, M., Cattaneo, L. (March, 2009). A behavioral method for studying mirror neurons: Repetitive action affects visual perception. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San, Francisco.
Scorolli, C. Borghi, A. M., Glenberg, A. M. (2009). Language-induced motor activity in bi-manual object lifting. Experimental Brain Research, 193, 43-53.
2008
Glenberg, A. M., & Mehta, S. (2008). Constraint on covariation: It’s not meaning. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 20, 241-264.
Glenberg, A. M., Sato, M., Cattaneo, L. (2008). Use-induced motor plasticity affects the processing of abstract and concrete language. Current Biology, 18, R290-R291.
Glenberg, A. M., Sato, M., Cattaneo, L., Riggio, L., Palumbo, D., Buccino, G. (2008). Processing abstract language modulates motor system activity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 905-919.
de Vega, M. Glenberg,A. M. & Graesser, A. C. (2008) Symbols, Embodiment and Meaning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Glenberg, A. M., de Vega, M., & Graesser, A. C. (2008). Framing the debate. In M. de Vega, A. M. Glenberg, and A. C. Graesser (Eds.) Symbol, Embodiment, and Meaning (pp. 1-9). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
de Vega, M., Glenberg, A. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2008). Relecting on the debate. In M. de Vega, A. M. Glenberg, and A. C. Graesser (Eds.) Symbol, Embodiment, and Meaning (pp. 397-440). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Glenberg, A. M. (2008). Radical changes in cognitive process due to technology: A jaundiced view. In I. Dror and S. Harnad (Eds.), Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds (pp. 71-82). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Glenberg, A. M. (2008). Embodiment for education. In P. Calvo and A. Gomila (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach (pp 355-372). Elsevier: Amsterdam.
2007
Angrave, L. C., & Glenberg, A. M. (2007, August). Infant gestures predict verb production one year later. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
Glenberg, A. M., Brown, M., & Levin, J. R. (2007). Enhancing comprehension in small reading groups using a manipulation strategy. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 32, 389-399.
Havas, D. A., Glenberg, A. M., & Rinck, M. (2007). Emotion simulation during language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 436-441.
Glenberg, A. M. (2007). Language and action: creating sensible combinations of ideas. In G. Gaskell (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp.361-370). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
Marley, S. C., Levin, J. R., & Glenberg, A. M. (2007). Improving Native American children’s listening comprehension through concrete representations. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 32, 537-550.
Glenberg, A. M., Jaworski, B., Rischal, M, & Levin, J.R. (2007). What brains are for: Action, meaning, and reading comprehension. In D McNamara (Ed), Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies (pp. 221-240). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
Mouilso, E., Glenberg, A. M., Havas, D. A., & Lindeman, L. M.. (2007). Differences in action tendencies distinguish anger and sadness after comprehension of emotional sentences. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1325-1330). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2006
Glenberg, A. M. (2006). Naturalizing Cognition: The Integration of Cognitive Science and Biology. Current Biology, 16, Pages R802-R804.
2005
Grounding Language in Bodily States: The Case for Emotion. Glenberg, A. M., Havas, D., Becker, R., & Rinck, M.. In R. Zwaan and D. Pecher (Eds.) The grounding of cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005).
2004
Kaschak, M. P., & Glenberg, A. M. (2004). This construction needs learned. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 133, 450-467.
Glenberg, A. M., Gutierrez, T,, Levin, J. R., Japuntich, S., & Kaschak, M. P. (2004). Activity and imagined activity can enhance young children's reading comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 424-436.
On doing two things at once: Temporal constraints on Actions in language comprehension. De Vega, M., Robertson, D. A., Glenberg, A.M., Kaschak, M. P., & Rinck, M. (2004). Memory & Cognition, Vol 32(7).
Putting words in perspective. Borghi, A. M., Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2004). Memory & Cognition, Vol 32(6).
This Construction Needs Learned. Kaschak, M. P., Glenberg, A. M. (2004). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 133(3), 450-467.
Activity and imagined activity can enhance young children's reading comprehension. Glenberg, A. M., Gutierrez, T., Levin, J. R., Japuntich, S., & Kaschak, M. P. (2004). Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 424-436.
2003
The body's contribution to language. Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2003). In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, V43 (pp. 93-126). New York: Academic Press.
2002
Grounding language in action. Glenberg, A. M.; Kaschak, M. P.; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Vol 9(3), Sep 2002. pp. 558-565
2001
What language needs from memory (and vice versa). Glenberg, A. M. (2001). In (H.L. Roediger & J.S. Nairne, Eds.) Nature of remembering: Essays in honor of Robert G. Crowder. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2001. pp. 351-368.
2000
Symbol grounding and meaning: A comparison of high-dimensional and embodied theories of meaning. Glenberg, A. M.; Robertson, D. A.; Journal of Memory & Language, Vol 43(3), Oct 2000. pp. 379-401.
More on "Symbol Grounding and Meaning"
Constructing meaning: The role of affordances and grammatical constructions in sentence comprehension. Kaschak, M. P.; Glenberg, A. M.; Journal of Memory & Language, Vol 43(3), Oct 2000. pp. 508-529.
More on "Constructing Meaning"
1999
Indexical understanding of instructions. Glenberg, A. M.; Robertson, D. A.; Discourse Processes, Vol 28(1), 1999. pp. 1-26.
Glenberg, A. M., Robertson, D. A., Jansen, J. L., & Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (1999). Not propositions. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 19-33.
Why mental models must be embodied. Glenberg, A. In: Mental Models in discourse processing and reasoning. Rickheit, Gert & Habel, Christopher; Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers, 1999, pp. 77-90.
1998
Averting the gaze disengages the environment and facilitates remembering. Glenberg, A. M.; Schroeder, J. L.; Robertson, D. A.; Memory & Cognition, Vol 26(4), Jul 1998. pp. 651-658.
The representation of space in mental models derived from text. Langston, W.; Kramer, D. C.; Glenberg, A. M.; Memory & Cognition, Vol 26(2), Mar 1998. pp. 247-262.
1997
What memory is for. Glenberg, A. M.; Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Vol 20(1), Mar 1997. pp. 1-55.
1987 (not recent but one of my favorites)
Glenberg, A. M., Meyer, M., and Lindem, K. (1987). Mental models contribute to foregrounding during text comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 26, 69-83.
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