Previous Publications – Relationships Between Language & Cognition
- Emmorey, K. (2018). Experimental approaches to studying visible meaning. Theoretical Linguistics, 44(3-4), 259-263. Click to request PDF
- Guistolisi, B., & Emmorey, K. (2018). Visual statistical learning with stimuli presented sequentially across space and time in deaf and hearing adults. Cognitive Science, 42, 3177-3190.
- Majid, A., Roberts, S.G., Cilissen, L, Emmorey, K., . . . Levinson, S. (2018). The differential encoding of perception in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Iverson, J., Patel, A., Nicodemus, B., & Emmorey, K. (2015). Synchronization to auditory and visual rhythms in hearing and deaf individuals. Cognition, 134, 232-244.
- Pyers, J.E., Perniss, P., & Emmorey, K. (2015). Viewpoint in the visual-spatial modality: The coordination of spatial perspective in sign languages. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 15(3), 1–28.
- Emmorey, K. (2013). The neurobiology of sign language and the mirror system hypothesis. Language and Cognition, 5(2–3), 205-210.
- Baus, C., Carreiras, M., & Emmorey, K. (2013). When does iconicity in sign language matter? Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(3), 261-71.
- Pyers, J., Shusterman, A., Senghas, A., Spelke, E., & Emmorey, K. (2010). Evidence from an emerging sign language reveals that language supports spatial cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(27), 12116-12120.
- Wilson, M., Lancaster, J., & Emmorey, K. (2010). Representational momentum for the human body: biomechanical knowledge matters, but learned movement patterns may not. Cognition, 116, 242-250.
- Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2006). Comparing sign language and speech reveals a universal limit on short-term memory capacity. Psychological Science, 17(8), 682-83. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., & Wilson, M. (2004). The puzzle of working memory for sign language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(12), 521-523. Click to request PDF
- Wilson, M., & Emmorey, K. (2003). The effect of irrelevant visual input on working memory for sign language. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 8(2), 97-103. Click to request PDF
- Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2001). Functional consequences of modality: Spatial coding in working memory for signs. In V. Dively, M. Metzger, S. Taub, & A. M. Baer (Eds.), Sign Languages: Discoveries from international research, pp. 91-99, Gallaudet University Press: Washington, D.C.
- Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2000). When does modality matter? Evidence from ASL on the nature of working memory. In K. Emmorey & H. Lane (Eds.), The signs of language revisited: An anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, 135-142, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.
- Emmorey, K., Klima, E., & Hickok, G. (1998). Mental rotation within linguistic and nonlinguistic domains in users of American Sign Language. Cognition, 68, 221-246. Click to request PDF
- McCullough, S., & Emmorey, K. (1997). Face processing by deaf ASL signers: Evidence for expertise in distinguishing local features. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2(4), 212 – 222.
- Emmorey, K. (1998). The impact of sign language use on visual-spatial cognition. In M. Marschark & D. Clark (Eds.), Psychological Perspectives on Deafness. (pp. 19-52) Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates: New Jersey.
- Wilson, M., & Emmorey, K. (1998). A “word length effect” for sign language: Further evidence on the role of language in structuring working memory. Memory and Cognition, 26(3), 584-590. Click to request PDF
- Bettger, J. G., Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., & Bellugi, U. (1997). Enhanced facial discrimination: Effects of experience with American Sign Language. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2(4), 223-233. Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (1997). Working memory for sign language: A window into the architecture of working memory. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2(3), 123-132.
- Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (1997). A visual-spatial “phonological loop” in working memory: Evidence from American Sign Language. Memory and Cognition, 25(3), 313-320.
- Emmorey, K. (1996). The confluence of space and language in signed languages. In P. Bloom, M. Peterson, L. Nadel, & M. Garrett (Eds). Language and Space, pp. 171-209, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Emmorey, K. & Kosslyn, S. (1996). Enhanced image generation abilities in deaf signers: A right hemisphere effect. Brain and Cognition, 32, 28-44. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (1994). Sign Language: A window into the brain, language, and cognition. In S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. Vol. 4, pp. 193-204, Academic Press: San Diego. Reprinted in (1998) in V. Clark, P. A. Eschholz, & A. P. Rosa (Eds.), Language: Readings in language and culture. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
- Emmorey, K., Kosslyn, S. M., & Bellugi, U. (1993). Visual imagery and visual-spatial language: Enhanced imagery abilities in deaf and hearing ASL signers, Cognition, 46, 139 – 181. Click to request PDF
