Experience and Cognition Lab

People

Principal Investigator

Daniel Casasanto

How experience shapes the brain and mind.

Lab Manager

Jason Hamm

Abstract Cognition; Emotion; Mental Metaphor; Developmental Psychology

Graduate Students

Ché Lucero

Gesture; Language; Metaphor; Clinical Applications of Cognitive Theory

Amritpal Singh

Abstract Thought; Culture; Emotion; Bodily Relativity

Owen Morgan

Bodily relativity; Perception; Emotion

Siyi Zhao

Mental Metaphor; Language Acquisition; Experiential Relativity

Long Distance Operatives

Kyle Jasmin (Post Doctoral Fellow, Birkbeck University)

Language; Social Neuroscience; Gesture; Metaphor; Bodily Relativity

Antonio Román (Ph.D. Student, University of Granada)

Cultural Relativity; Space and Time; Gesture

Jonathan Kominsky (Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University)

Causal Cognition; Metaphor; Emotion; Bodily Relativity; Perspective Taking

Elias Blinkoff (Ph.D. Student, Temple University)

The Think Tank; Language Development; Bilingualism; Educational Policy and Pedagogy

Research Assistants

Lucas Evans

Language; Abnormal psychology; Biopsychology

Former PhD Students

Yağmur Deniz Kısa

Gesture; Mental Metaphor; Cultural Relativity

Tom Gijssels

Language; Social Neuroscience; Space and Time; Bodily Relativity

Geoffrey Brookshire (Postdoc at University of Birmingham)

Neural Basis of Emotion; Motor Experience; Language; Metaphor; Bodily Relativity

Defu Yap

Gesture; Metaphor; Iconicity in Language

Benjamin Pitt (Postdoc at UC Berkeley)

Mental Metaphors; Cultural Relativity; Numerical Cognition; Cognitive Design

Rebecca Rosen

Racial Perception; Political Attitudes; Minority Opinion

Juanma de la Fuente (Ph.D. Student, University of Granada)

Bodily Relativity; Cultural Relativity; Emotion; Motor Experience

Roberto Bottini (Associate Professor at University of Trento)

Metaphor; Linguistic Relativity; Cultural Relativity; Consciousness; Space and Time

Sarah Dolscheid (Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Cologne)

Linguistic Relativity; Psychophysics; Metaphor

Lab Alumni

Amanda Dobbyn

Dayly Dickinson

Nikolai Maximay

Melissa Grossbarth

Varun Joshi

Liam Torpy

Holly Zaharchuk

Chelsea Rapoport

Paula Aguti

Srishti Goel

Alexander Albury

Shreya Jaiswal

Clara Sava-Segal

Marianna Zhang

Sumer Vaid

Kamilah Scales

Aidel Townsley

Rachel Mattessich

Frances Dodin

Coral Zheng

Ellen-Sarrah Dolgopolskaia

Astrid Evenson

Dong Wang

Mingtong Li

Shikun Su

Radha Pandya

Ying Hong

Emma Murrugarra

Luyang Jiang

Corinne Roma

Rabani Singh

Cordelia Achen

Diego Rincon

Lisa Morton

	Principal Investigator
			Daniel Casasanto How experience shapes the brain and mind.

	Lab Manager
			Jason Hamm Abstract Cognition; Emotion; Mental Metaphor; Developmental Psychology

	Graduate Students
			Ché Lucero Gesture; Language; Metaphor; Clinical Applications of Cognitive Theory
			Amritpal Singh Abstract Thought; Culture; Emotion; Bodily Relativity
			Owen Morgan Bodily relativity; Perception; Emotion
			Siyi Zhao Mental Metaphor; Language Acquisition; Experiential Relativity

	Long Distance Operatives
			Kyle Jasmin (Post Doctoral Fellow, Birkbeck University) Language; Social Neuroscience; Gesture; Metaphor; Bodily Relativity
			Antonio Román (Ph.D. Student, University of Granada) Cultural Relativity; Space and Time; Gesture
			Jonathan Kominsky (Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University) Causal Cognition; Metaphor; Emotion; Bodily Relativity; Perspective Taking
			Elias Blinkoff (Ph.D. Student, Temple University) The Think Tank; Language Development; Bilingualism; Educational Policy and Pedagogy

	Research Assistants
			Lucas Evans Language; Abnormal psychology; Biopsychology


	Former PhD Students
			Yağmur Deniz Kısa Gesture; Mental Metaphor; Cultural Relativity
			Tom Gijssels Language; Social Neuroscience; Space and Time; Bodily Relativity
			Geoffrey Brookshire (Postdoc at University of Birmingham) Neural Basis of Emotion; Motor Experience; Language; Metaphor; Bodily Relativity
			Defu Yap Gesture; Metaphor; Iconicity in Language
			Benjamin Pitt (Postdoc at UC Berkeley) Mental Metaphors; Cultural Relativity; Numerical Cognition; Cognitive Design
			Rebecca Rosen Racial Perception; Political Attitudes; Minority Opinion
			Juanma de la Fuente (Ph.D. Student, University of Granada) Bodily Relativity; Cultural Relativity; Emotion; Motor Experience
			Roberto Bottini (Associate Professor at University of Trento) Metaphor; Linguistic Relativity; Cultural Relativity; Consciousness; Space and Time
			Sarah Dolscheid (Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Cologne) Linguistic Relativity; Psychophysics; Metaphor


	Lab Alumni