Amsel, B. D., DeLong, K. A., & Kutas, M. (under review). Close, but no garlic: Perceptuomotor and event knowledge activation during language comprehension.
Kutas, M., Kluender, R., Barkley, C., & Amsel, B. D. (forthcoming in 2015). Language. In J. Cacioppo, L. Tassinary,
and G. Berntson (Eds), Handbook of Psychophysiology 4th Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Forgács, B., Bardolph, M. D., Amsel, B. D., DeLong, K. A., & Kutas, M. (2015). Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:28. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00028.
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Amsel, B. D. (2014). Flexible use of perceptuomotor knowledge in lexical and semantic decision tasks. Center for Research in Language Technical Report., vol. 27, no. 1.
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Amsel, B. D., Urbach, T. P., & Kutas. M. (2014). Empirically grounding grounded cognition: The case of color.
NeuroImage, 99, 149-157.
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Amsel, B. D., Urbach, T. P., & Kutas, M. (2013). Alive and grasping: Stable and rapid semantic access to an object category but not graspability. NeuroImage, 77, 1-13.
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Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. (2013). Semantic richness, concreteness, and object domain: An electrophysiological study. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 117-129.
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Amsel, B. D., Urbach, T. P., & Kutas, M. (2012). Perceptual and motor attribute ratings for 559 object concepts. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 1028-1041.
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Amsel, B. D. (2011). Tracking real-time neural activation of conceptual knowledge using single-trial event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 49, 970-983.
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Conference Presentations
Amsel, B. D., DeLong, K. A., & Kutas, M. Perceptuomotor and event knowledge activation during language comprehension. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2015.
Guerra, E., Troyer, M., Amsel, B. D., Urbach, T. P., DeLong, K. A., Knoeferle, P., & Kutas, M. Visually perceived spatial distance modulates an early neural response to different semantic relations. 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2014.
Troyer, M., Guerra, E., Amsel, B. D., Urbach, T. P., DeLong, K. A., Knoeferle, P., & Kutas, M. Spatial distance influences the neural response to different semantic relations. 21th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, April 2014.
Forgács, B., Bardolph, M. D., Amsel, B. D., DeLong, K. A., & Kutas, M. ERPs talk: Are metaphors abstract or concrete? 18th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Budapest, Hungary, August 2013.
Bardolph, M. D., Forgács, B., DeLong, K. A., Amsel, B. D., & Kutas, M. Metaphor and concreteness: An ERP study. 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 2013.
Amsel, B. D., Urbach, T. P., & Kutas, M. Getting a grasp: Using the no-go N200 to inform the timing of semantic access. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, Louisiana. September, 2012.
Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. Tracking the timecourse of conceptual knowledge activation. 20th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 2010.
Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. A dynamic approach to semantic computation: Evidence from event-related potentials and connectionist attractor networks. 15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2009.
Le, A., Rondina, R., Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. Statistical feature-based semantic relations, not knowledge type, govern speed of semantic computation. 19th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, York, U.K. 2009.
Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. The nature of semantic representation and visual information during online language comprehension: An electrophysiological approach. 18th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, London, Ontario. June 2008.
Le, A., Rondina II, R., Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. Exploring reasons for the primacy of sensory knowledge in semantic computation. 18th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, London, ON., June 2008.
Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. The role of semantic visual features in word meaning computation: An electrophysiological investigation. 15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
Amsel, B. D., & Cree, G. S. Insights into semantic decision making: A connectionist attractor network approach. 17th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Victoria, B.C., June 2007.
