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Diane Pecher is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and focuses on research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work spans a number of subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Sensory Systems.

Their research addresses several key topics, notably Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, Categorization, Perception, and Language, Action Observation and Synchronization, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

Frequent publication venues for Diane Pecher include Memory & Cognition, Cognition, Cortex, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, and Journal of Cognition.

Recently published papers by Diane Pecher include:

  • Does multisensory study benefit memory for pictures and sounds? (2022, Cognition)
  • Encoding variability explains the multisensory benefit in recognition memory. (2023, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Diane Pecher are René Zeelenberg, Samuel J. A. van Zuijlen, Sharon Singh, Kevin Gunawan, and Mirthe E M van der Meijden.

Best Publications

  • Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking

    Diane Pecher;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Verifying Different-Modality Properties for Concepts Produces Switching Costs

    Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Perceptual processing affects conceptual processing

    Saskia Van Dantzig;Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Abstract concepts: sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond

    Diane Pecher;Inge Boot;Saskia Van Dantzig

  • Revisiting Mental Simulation in Language Comprehension: Six Replication Attempts

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Diane Pecher

  • Sensorimotor simulations underlie conceptual representations: Modality-specific effects of prior activation

    Diane Pecher;Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Lawrence W. Barsalou

  • Mighty Metaphors: Behavioral and ERP Evidence that Power Shifts Attention on a Vertical Dimension.

    Kiki Zanolie;Saskia van Dantzig;Saskia van Dantzig;Inge Boot;Jasper Wijnen

  • Approach and avoidance as action effects

    Saskia van Dantzig;Diane Pecher;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Evidence for long-term cross-language repetition priming in conceptual implicit memory tasks

    René Zeelenberg;René Zeelenberg;Diane Pecher

  • No retrieval-induced forgetting using item-specific independent cues: evidence against a general inhibitory account.

    Gino Camp;Diane Pecher;Henk G. Schmidt

  • Similarity is closeness: Metaphorical mapping in a conceptual task

    Inge Boot;Diane Pecher

  • Does pizza prime coin? Perceptual priming in lexical decision and pronunciation.

    Diane Pecher;René Zeelenberg;Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers

  • Oral approach-avoidance: affective consequences of muscular articulation dynamics.

    Sascha Topolinski;Ira Theresa Maschmann;Diane Pecher;Piotr Winkielman

  • Introduction to the special topic embodied and grounded cognition

    Anna M. Borghi;Diane Pecher

  • Participant Nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology

    Rolf A. Zwaan;Diane Pecher;Gabriele Paolacci;Samantha Bouwmeester

  • Language comprehenders retain implied shape and orientation of objects

    Diane Pecher;Saskia van Dantzig;Rolf A. Zwaan;René Zeelenberg

  • Perception is a two-way junction: Feedback semantics in word recognition

    Diane Pecher

  • Retrieval-induced forgetting in implicit memory tests: the role of test awareness.

    Gino Camp;Diane Pecher;Henk G. Schmidt

  • Congruency between Word Position and Meaning is Caused by Task-Induced Spatial Attention

    Diane Pecher;Saskia Van Dantzig;Inge Boot;Kiki Zanolie

  • A sharp image or a sharp knife: norms for the modality-exclusivity of 774 concept-property items

    Saskia van Dantzig;Rosemary A. Cowell;René Zeelenberg;Diane Pecher

  • Grounding Cognition: Introduction to Grounding Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking

    Diane Pecher;Rolf A. Zwaan

  • Applied Cognitive Psychology

    Alice F. Healy;Lyle E. Bourne

Frequent Co-Authors

René Zeelenberg
René Zeelenberg Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rolf A. Zwaan
Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers
Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers University of Amsterdam
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Sascha Topolinski
Sascha Topolinski University of Cologne
Anna M. Borghi
Anna M. Borghi Sapienza University of Rome
Jamin Halberstadt
Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago

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