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Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2022). The order of magnitude:Why SNARC-like tasks (still) cannot support a generalized magnitude system. Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.13108

Casasanto, D. (2022). Embodied Semantics. In F.T. Li (Ed.) Handbook of Cognitive Semantics. Leiden: Brill.

Pitt, B., Ferrigno, S., Cantlon, J. F., Casasanto, D., Gibson, E., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2021). Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture. Science Advances, 7(33). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg4141

Brookshire, G., Mangelsdorf, H. H., Sava-Segal, C., Reis, K., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2021). Expertise modulates neural stimulus-tracking. eNeuro, 8(4). doi:10.1523/eneuro.0065-21.2021

Kısa Y.D., Goldin-Meadow, S. & Casasanto, D. (2021). Do gestures really facilitate speech production?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/xge0001135.

Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2020). The correlations in experience principle: How culture shapes concepts of time and number. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(6), 1048–1070.

Casasanto, D., Staum Casasanto, L., Gijssels, T., & Hagoort, P. (2020). The Reverse Chameleon Effect: Negative Social Consequences of Anatomical Mimicry. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01876

Callizo-Romero, C., Tutnjević, S., Pandza, M., Ouellet, M., Kranjec, A., Ilić, S., Gu, Y., Göksun, T., Chahboun, S., Casasanto, D. & Santiago, J. (2020). Temporal Focus and time spatialization across cultures. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(6), 1247-1258.

Lucero, C., Brookshire, G., Sava-Segal, C. Bottini, R., Goldin-Meadow, S., Vogel, E., & Casasanto, D. (2020). Unconscious number discrimination in the human visual system. Cerebral Cortex, 30(11), 5821-5829.

Gijssels, T. & Casasanto, D. (2020). Hand use norms for Dutch and English manual action verbs: Implicit measures from a pantomime task. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1744-1746.

Casasanto, D. & Pitt, B. (2019). The faulty magnitude detector: Why SNARC-like tasks cannot support a Generalized Magnitude System. Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.12794

Casasanto, D. & de Bruin, A. (2019). Metaphors we learn by: Directed motor action improves word learning. Cognition, 182, 177-183.

Brookshire, G. & Casasanto, D. (2018). Approach motivation in human cerebral cortex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017-0141

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Gijssels, T., Ivry, R.B., & Casasanto, D. (2018). tDCS to premotor cortex changes action verb understanding: Complementary effects of inhibitory and excitatory stimulation. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 11452.

Pitt, B., & Casasanto, D. (2018). Spatializing emotion: No evidence for a domain-general magnitude system. Cognitive Science, 42, 2150-2180.

Casasanto, D., & Jasmin, K (2018). Virtual Reality. In A. de Groot & P. Hagoort (Eds.), Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language (pp. 174-189). Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

Casasanto, D. (2017). Sleight of hand. Science, 357, 1246.

Brookshire, G., Lu, J., Nusbaum, H.C., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2017). Visual cortex entrains to sign language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(24), 6352-6357.

Chrysikou, E. G., Casasanto, D., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2017). Motor experience influences object knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(3), 395-408.

de la Fuente, J., Casasanto, D., Martínez-Cascales, J. I., & Santiago, J. (2017). Motor imagery shapes abstract concepts. Cognitive Science, 41(5), 1350-1360.

Casasanto, D. (2017). Relationships between language and cognition. In B. Dancygier (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 19-37). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gijssels, T. & Casasanto, D. (2017). Conceptualizing time in terms of space: Experimental evidence. In B. Dancygier (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 651-668). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Casasanto, D. (2017). The hierarchical structure of mental metaphors. In B. Hampe (Ed.), Metaphor: Embodied cognition and discourse (pp. 46-61). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gijssels, T., Staum Casasanto, L., Jasmin, K., Hagoort, P, & Casasanto, D. (2016). Speech accommodation without priming: The case of pitch. Discourse Processes, 53(4), 233-251.

Pitt, B., & Casasanto, D. (2016). Reading experience shapes the mental timeline but not the mental number line. In A. Papfragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.2753-2758). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Casasanto, D. (2016). A shared mechanism of linguistic, cultural, and bodily relativity. Language Learning, 66(3), 714-730.

Casasanto, D. (2016). Linguistic relativity. In N. Riemer (Ed.), Routledge handbook of semantics (pp. 158-174). New York: Routledge.

Casasanto, D. (2016). Temporal language and temporal thinking may not go hand in hand. In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Ed.), Conceptualizations of time (pp. 169-186). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bailey, J.O., Bailenson, J.N., & Casasanto, D. (2016). When does virtual embodiment change our minds? Prescence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 25(3), 222-233.

Casasanto, D., & Lupyan, G. (2015). All concepts are ad hoc concepts. In E. Margolis & S. Laurence (Eds.), The conceptual mind: New directions in the study of concepts (pp. 543-566). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Casasanto, D., Brookshire, G., & Ivry, R. B. (2015). Meaning is not a reflex: Context-dependence of spatial congruity effects. Cognitive Science, 39(8), 1979-1986.

Kim, N., Krosnick, J., & Casasanto, D. (2015). Moderators of candidate name-order effects in elections: An experiment. Political Psychology, 36(5), 525-542.

Dolscheid, S., & Casasanto, D. (2015). Spatial congruity effects reveal metaphorical thinking, not polarity correspondence. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1836), 1-11.

Kunert, R., Willems, R. M., Casasanto, D., Patel, A. D., & Hagoort, P. (2015). Music and language syntax interact in Broca’s area: An fMRI study. PLoS ONE, 10(11): e0141069. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141069

Gray, S. J., Brookshire, G., Casasanto, D., & Gallo, D. A. (2015). Electrically stimulating prefrontal cortex at retrieval improves recollection accuracy. Cortex, 73, 188-194.

Bottini, R., Crepaldi, D., Casasanto, D., Crollen, V., & Collignon, O. (2015). Space and time in the sighted and blind. Cognition, 141, 67-72.

Read about this study in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Casasanto, D., & Gijssels, T. (2015). What makes a metaphor an embodied metaphor? Linguistics Vanguard, 1(1), 327-337.

de la Fuente, J., Casasanto, D., & Santiago, J. (2015). Observed actions affect body-specific associations between space and valence. Acta Psychologica, 156, 32-36.

de la Fuente, J., Casasanto, D., Román, A., & Santiago, J. (2015). Can culture influence body-specific associations between space and valence? Cognitive Science, 39, 821-832.

Casasanto, D., & Bottini, R. (2014). Mirror-reading can reverse the flow of time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(2), 473-9.

de la Fuente, J., Santiago, J., Román, A., Dumitrache, C., & Casasanto, D. (2014). When you think about it, the past is in front of you: How culture shapes spatial conceptions of time. Psychological Science, 25(9), 1682-1690.

Casasanto, D., Jasmin, K., Brookshire, G., & Gijssels, T. (2014). The QWERTY effect: How typing shapes word meanings and baby names. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 296-301). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Read about this study in TIME or Die Welt.

Read our reply to Mark Liberman's Language Log post about QWERTY Baby Names here.

Lupyan, G., & Casasanto, D. (2014). Meaningless words promote meaningful categorization. Language and Cognition, 7(02), 167-193.

Lucero, C., Zaharchuk, H., & Casasanto, D. (2014). Beat gestures facilitate speech production. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 898-903). Austin, TX.

Casasanto, D. (2014). Bodily relativity. In L. Shapiro (Ed.), Routledge handbook of embodied cognition (pp. 108-117). New York: Routledge.

This chapter summarizes some of the first tests of the body-specificity hypothesis. Read about these studies in Scientific American, or hear about them on Futureproof Science Radio.

Pitt, B., & Casasanto, D. (2014). Experiential origins of the mental number line. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1174-1179). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Casasanto, D. (2014). Experiential origins of mental metaphors: Language, culture, and the body. In M. Landau, M.D. Robinson, & B. Meier (Eds.), The power of metaphor: Examining its influence on social life (pp. 249-268). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Yap, D., Staum Casasanto, L., & Casasanto, D. (2014). Metaphoric iconicity in signed and spoken languages. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1808-1813.) Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Casasanto, D., & Bottini, R. (2014). Spatial language and abstract concepts. WIREs Cognitive Science, 5(2), 139–149.

Dolscheid, S., Hunnius, S., Casasanto, D., & Majid, A. (2014). Prelinguistic infants are sensitive to space-pitch associations found across cultures. Psychological Science, 25(6), 1256-1261.

Dolscheid, S., Willems, R.M., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2014). The relation of space and musical pitch in the brain. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Casasanto, D. (2013). Development of metaphorical thinking: The role of language. In M. Borkent, B. Dancygier, & J. Hinnell (Eds.), Language and the Creative Mind (pp. 3-18). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Casasanto, D., & Stocker, K. (2013). A spatial path to mental time travel in humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Retrieved from http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/comments/S1364-6613(12)00245-8

Brookshire, G., Graver, C., & Casasanto, D. (2013). Motor asymmetries predict neural organization of emotion. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 245-250). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Bottini, R., & Casasanto, D. (2013). Space and time in the child's mind: Metaphoric or ATOMic? Frontiers in Psychology, 4(803), 1-9.

Casasanto, D. (2013). Gesture and language processing. In H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira, & R. Zemel (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the mind (pp. 372-374). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Dolscheid, S., Shayan, S., Majid, A., & Casasanto, D. (2013). The thickness of musical pitch: Psychophysical evidence for linguistic relativity. Psychological Science, 24(5), 613–621.

Gijssels, T., Rueschemeyer, S.-A., Bottini, R., & Casasanto, D. (2013). Space and time in the parietal cortex: fMRI evidence for a neural asymmetry. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 495 - 500). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Kominsky, J., & Casasanto, D. (2013). Specific to whose body? Perspective taking and the spatial mapping of valence. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(266), 1-10.

Casasanto, D. (2012). Whorfian hypothesis. In J. L. Jackson, Jr. (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies online: Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lai, V.T., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2012). Affective primacy vs. cognitive primacy: Dissolving the debate. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(243), 1-8.

Brookshire, G., & Casasanto, D. (2012). Motivation and motor control: Hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with handedness. PLoS ONE, 7(4): e36036. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036036

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Jasmin, K., & Casasanto, D. (2012). The QWERTY effect: How typing shapes the meanings of words. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 19(3), 499-504.

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Read our reply to Mark Liberman's Language Log post about the QWERTY effect here.

Casasanto, D., & Henetz, T. (2012). Handedness shapes children's abstract concepts. Cognitive Science, 36, 359–372.

Read about this study in Science News.

Casasanto, D., & Jasmin, K. (2012). The hands of time: Temporal gestures in English speakers. Cognitive Linguistics, 23(4), 643–674.

van Ackeren, M., Casasanto, D., Bekkering, H., Hagoort, P., & Rueschemeyer, S.A. (2012). Pragmatics in action: Indirect requests engage theory of mind areas and the cortical motor network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4(11), 2237-2247.

Casasanto, D. (2011). Different bodies, different minds: The body-specificity of language and thought. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(6), 378–383.

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Casasanto, D., & Chrysikou, E.G. (2011). When left is "right": Motor fluency shapes abstract concepts. Psychological Science, 22(4), 419-422.

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Willems, R.M., Labruna, L., D’Esposito, M., Ivry, R., & Casasanto, D. (2011). A functional role for the motor system in language understanding: Evidence from theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation. Psychological Science, 22(7), 849–854.

Willems, R.M., & Casasanto, D. (2011). Flexibility in embodied language understanding. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(116), 1-11.

Casasanto, D., Fotakopoulou, O., & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Space and time in the child's mind: Evidence for a cross-dimensional asymmetry. Cognitive Science, 34, 387-405.

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Merritt, D. J., Casasanto, D., & Brannon, E. M. (2010). Do monkeys think in metaphors? Representations of space and time in monkeys and humans. Cognition, 117, 191-202.

Bottini, R., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Implicit spatial length modulates time estimates, but not vice versa. In C. Hölscher, T. F. Shipley, M. Olivetti Belardinelli, J. A. Bateman, & N. S. Newcombe (Eds.), Spatial cognition VII (pp. 152-162). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.

Brookshire, G., Ivry, R., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Modulation of motor-meaning congruity effects for valenced words. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1940-1945). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Casasanto, D. (2010). Space for thinking. In V. Evans & P. Chilton (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space: State of the art and new directions (pp. 453-478). London: Equinox Publishing.

Casasanto, D. (2010). Wie der körper sprache und vorstellungsvermögen im gehirn formt. In Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Jahrbuch [Max Planck Society Yearbook]. München: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

Casasanto, D., & Dijkstra, K. (2010). Motor action and emotional memory. Cognition, 115(1), 179-185.

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Casasanto, D., & Jasmin, K. (2010). Good and bad in the hands of politicians: Spontaneous gestures during positive and negative speech. PLoS ONE, 5(7): e11805. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011805

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Staum Casasanto, L., Jasmin, K., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Virtually accommodating: Speech rate accommodation to a virtual interlocutor. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 127-132). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Willems, R. M., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Body-specific representations of action verbs: Neural evidence from right- and left-handers. Psychological Science, 21(1), 67-74.

Willems, R.M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Neural dissociations between action verb understanding and motor imagery. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(10), 2387-2400.

Casasanto, D. (2009). Review of music, language, and the brain. Language and Cognition, 1(1), 143-146.

Casasanto, D. (2009). When is a linguistic metaphor a conceptual metaphor? In V. Evans & S. Pourcel (Eds.), New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 127-145). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Henetz, T., & Casasanto, D. (2009). Emergence of spatial metaphor in children. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2060). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Willems, R. M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2009). Body-specific motor imagery of hand actions: Neural evidence from right-and left-handers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(39), 1-9.

Casasanto, D. (2009). Embodiment of abstract concepts: Good and bad in right- and left-handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(3), 351-367.

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Fedorenko, E., Patel, A., Casasanto, D., Winawer, J., & Gibson, T. (2009). Structural integration in language and music: Evidence for a shared system. Memory & Cognition, 37(1), 1-9.

Casasanto, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2008). Time in the mind: Using space to think about time. Cognition, 106, 579-593.

Casasanto, D. (2008). Who's afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Cross-linguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language Learning, 58(1), 63-79.

Casasanto, D. (2008). Conceptual affiliates of metaphorical gestures. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Communication, & Cognition, Brighton, UK.

Casasanto, D. (2008). Similarity and proximity: When does close in space mean close in mind? Memory & Cognition, 36(6), 1047-1056.

Casasanto, D. (2005). Crying "Whorf". Science, 307, 1721-1722.

Casasanto, D. (2005). Perceptual foundations of abstract thought. (Doctoral dissertation). Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Killgore, W., Glahn, D., & Casasanto, D. (2005). Development and validation of the design organization test (DOT): A rapid screening instrument for assessing visuospatial ability. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27, 449-459.

Rabin, M., Narayan, V., Kimberg, D., Casasanto, D., Glosser, G., Tracy, J., French, J., Sperling, M., & Detre, J. (2004). Functional MRI predicts postsurgical memory following temporal lobectomy. Brain, 127, 2286–2298.

Casasanto, D., Boroditsky, L., Phillips, W., Greene, J., Goswami, S., Bocanegra-Thiel, et al. (2004). How deep are effects of language on thought? Time estimation in speakers of English, Indonesian, Greek, and Spanish. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society (pp. 575–580). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Casasanto, D. (2003). Hemispheric specialization in prefrontal cortex: effects of verbalizability, imageability and meaning. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 16, 361-382.

Casasanto, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2003). Do we think about time in terms of space? In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society (pp. 216-221). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Kounios, J., Bachman, P., Casasanto, D., Grossman, M., Smith, R., & Yang, W. (2003). Novel concepts mediate retrieval from human episodic associative memory: Evidence from event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters, 345, 157-160.

Casasanto, D., Killgore, W., Glosser, G., Maldjian, J., Alsop, D., Cooke, A., Grossman, M., & Detre, J. (2002). Neural correlates of successful and unsuccessful verbal encoding. Brain & Language, 80, 287-295.

Casasanto, D., Killgore, W., Glosser, G., Maldjian, J., & Detre, J. (2000). Hemispheric specialization during episodic memory encoding in the human hippocampus and MTL. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 77-82). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Killgore, W., Casasanto, D., Maldjian, J., & Detre, J. (2000). Associative memory for faces activates the left amygdala and hippocampus. NeuroReport, 11, 2259-2263.

Killgore, W., Glosser, G., Casasanto, D., French, J., Alsop, D., & Detre, J. (1999). Functional MRI and the Wada test provide complementary information for predicting postoperative seizure control. Seizure, 8(8), 450-455.

Killgore, W., DellaPietra, L., & Casasanto, D. (1999). Hemispheric laterality and self-rated personality traits. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 89, 994-996.