Publications, etc.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Bray, F., Davis, C., Klafter, Kiana, & Yee, E. (2026, May). Behavioral Evidence that Similar Temporal Dynamics Underlie Perception and Conception. Poster presented at the Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects, Functional and Neural Perspectives. Rovereto, Italy.
Leong, W., Alngohuro, B.O., & Yee, E. (2026). Breaking Bouba-Kiki: The effect of label similarity on labelling perceptually similar referents. Poster presented at the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA.
Senni, C., & Yee, E. (2025, November). Training sequence modulates effects of exemplar variability in concept learning. In Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Denver, CO.
Khan, I. N., Yee, E., Lautz, N., Davis, C. P., Joergensen, G. H. (2025). Does an impaired sense of smell make it harder to think about things like garlic? Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Leong, W., Roark, C., & Yee, E. (2024). Evidence of a bias for proximal responses when labelling perceptually closer stimuli. In Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Diego, CA.
Miller, L.A., Lautz, N., Leong, W., & Yee, E. (2024). Are objects oriented towards your dominant hand easier to recognize? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
May, A., Miller, L.A., Morrow, H.M. & Yee, E. (2023). Conditions of Control: Investigating the effect of ADHD symptoms on efficacy of tDCS for improving inhibitory control. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Lautz, N., Yee, E. (2022). Using Visual Interference to Investigate the Embodiment of the Conceptual Features of Shape and Color. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
Davis, C. P., & Yee, E. (2022). Time as an embodied property of concepts. Poster presented at the 9th International Meeting on the Mental Lexicon, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada.
Davis, C.P., Lautz, N. & Yee, E. (2021). A graded role for the visual system in perceptual simulation during language processing? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Morrow, H. M., Hancock, R., & Yee, E. (2020). Waves of Binding: EEG oscillations during integration of visual, lexical, and auditory stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Virtual Conference.
Yee, E., Semenza, N., Harris-Starling, C., & Molnar, M. (2020) Does sound-shape correspondence affect how we produce an object’s name? It may depend on whether we intend to communicate about it. Poster to be presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Science. Virtual Conference.
Brown, K.S., Yee, E., Saltzman, E., Magnuson, J.S. & McRae, K. (2020). What Do Computers Know About Semantics Anyway? Testing Distributional Semantics Models Against a Broad Range of Relatedness Ratings. Poster to be presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual Conference.
Darling, S., Alexander, K., Morrow, H. M., & Yee, E. (2020). A cautionary tale about the importance of taking individual differences into account when examining whether tDCS can enhance cognitive control. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Virtual Conference.
Davis, C. P.(g), Paz-Alonso P. M., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2019). Is arbitrary episodic context suppressed in abstract concepts? Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Shafiyan-Rad, S., Musz, E., Joergensen, G. H. & Yee, E. (2018). Does attention to shape increase the activation of shape information in the sensorimotor cortices? Poster presented at the ninth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
Campbell, A., Bachoy, D., Joergensen, G. H. & Yee, E. (2018). Looking into my (green) eyes may make you think of cucumbers. Poster presented at the ninth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
Strom, B., Davis, C. P. & Yee, E. (2018). The role of context in learning concepts. Poster presented at the ninth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest, Storrs, CT.
Davis, C. P., Paz-Alonso P. M., Altmann, G. T. M. & Yee, E. (2018, March). Encoding of episodic context in abstract and concrete concepts. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Healy, R., Serino, J., Davis, C. P., Joergensen, G. H. & Yee, E. (2018, March). Understanding “thunder” is more difficult than “rainbow” when performing an auditory task. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Morrow, H. M., Joergensen. G. H. & Yee, E. (2018, March). Open arms and open minds: The effects of posture and modality on the recall of affect-related concepts. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

(These are deposited here for my own personal use.)

Yee, E., Bray, F., & Heller, D. (2026). Sometimes you look more when you know less: Goal dependent eye movements during language processing, Brain Research, 150527.

*Leong, W., Alngohuro, B. O., Yee, E. (2026). People prefer similar labels mapping to perceptually similar referents. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 761-767.

*Leong, W., Roark, C.L., Yee, E. (2025). Label Similarity and Stimulus Similarity Interact in Categorization. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 5780-5786

Reilly, J., Shain, C., Borghesani, V., Kuhnke, P., Vigliocco, G., Peelle, J. E., … & Vinson, D. (2025). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 32(1), 243-280.

Davis, C. P., & Yee, E. (2023). Is time an embodied property of concepts? PLoS ONE, 18(9), e0290997.

Brown, K. S., Yee, E., Joergensen, G., Troyer, M., Saltzman, E., Rueckl, J., Magnuson, J., & McRae, K. (2023). Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations. Cognitive Science, 47(5), e13291.

Davis, C. P., Eigsti, I. M., Healy, R., Joergensen, G. H. & Yee, E. (2022). Autism-spectrum traits in neurotypicals predict the embodiment of manipulation knowledge about object concepts: Evidence from eye tracking. PLoS ONE, 17(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268069

Davis, C. P., Paz-Alonso, P. M., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2022). Encoding and inhibition of arbitrary episodic context with abstract concepts. Memory & Cognition, 50, 546-563. doi:10.3758/s13421-021-01212-y

Davis, C. P., Yee, E., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Beyond the social domain: Autism-spectrum traits and the embodiment of manipulable object concepts. In S. L. Macrine & J. Fugate (Eds.), Movement matters: How embodied cognition informs teaching and learning. MIT Press.

Davis, C. P. & Yee, E. (2021). Building semantic memory from distributional language and embodied experience. WIREs Cognitive Science, e1555. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1555

Ekves, Z., Prystauka, Y., Davis, C.P., Yee, E. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2021). Psychology of Cleansing through the Prism of Intersecting Object Histories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E4. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20000552

Davis, C. P., Joergensen, G. H., Boddy, P., Dowling, C., & Yee, E. (2020). Making it harder to ‘see’ meaning: The more you see something, the more its conceptual representation is shaped by visual experience. Psychological Science, 31(5), 505-517. doi:10.31234/osf.io/gpfn2

Davis, C. P., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2020). Language as a mental travel guide. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E125. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19003182

Davis, C. P., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2020). Situational systematicity: A role for schema in understanding the differences between abstract and concrete concepts. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37(1-2), 142-153. doi:10.31234/osf.io/5qud8

Pejovic, J., Yee, E., Molnar, M. (2020). Speaker Matters: Natural inter-speaker variation affects 4-month-olds’ perception of audio-visual speech, First Language, 20(2), 113-127.

Yee, E. (2019). Abstraction and Concepts: When, How, Where, What and Why? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1257-1265.

Davis, C. P., Paz-Alonso, P., Altmann, G.T.M. & Yee, E. (2019). Abstract concepts and the suppression of arbitrary episodic context. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1592-1598.

Davis, C. P., & Yee, E. (2019). Features, labels, space, and time: factors supporting taxonomic relationships in the anterior temporal lobe and thematic relationships in the angular gyrus. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1347-1357.

Yee, E., Jones, M. N., & McRae, K. (2018). Semantic Memory. In J. T. Wixted & S. Thompson-Schill (Eds), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (4th Edition, Volume 3: Language and Thought, pp. 319-356). New York: Wiley.

Yee, E. (2017). Fluid semantics: Semantic knowledge is experience-based and dynamic. In A. Lahiri & S. Kotzor (Eds), The Speech Processing Lexicon: neurocognitive and behavioural approaches (pp. 235-262). Berlin/Boston: Mouton.

Yee, E., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2017). Associative memory, figurative art, and abstract concepts. In G. Schwartz & V. Bermudez (Eds), #Nodos. Pamplona: Next Door Publishers. Published in English in 2019: Yee, E., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019). Associative memory, figurative art, and abstract concepts. In G. Schwartz & V. Bermudez (Eds), #Nodes. Chicago: Intellect, The University of Chicago Press.

Yee, E., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2016). Putting concepts into context. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(4), 1015-1027.

Yee, E., Chrysikou, E., Hoffman, E., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). Manual Experience Shapes Object Representation.Psychological Science, 24(6), 909-919.

Yee, E., Chrysikou, E.G., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). Semantic Memory. In Kevin Ochsner and Stephen Kosslyn (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 1: Core Topics (pp. 353-374). Oxford University Press.

White, K.S., Yee, E., Blumstein, S.E., & Morgan, J. (2013). Adults show less sensitivity to phonetic detail in unfamiliar words, too. Journal of Memory and Language, 68, 362-378.

Yee, E., Ahmed, S., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2012). Colorless green ideas (can) prime furiously. Psychological Science, 23(4), 364-369.

Yee, E., Huffstetler, S., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2011). Function follows form: Activation of shape and function features during object identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 140(3), 348-363. doi: 10.1037/a0022840

*Mirman, D., *Yee, E., Magnuson, J., & Blumstein, S.E. (2011). Theories of Spoken Word Recognition Deficits in Aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking and computational modeling. Brain and Language, 117, 53-68. *The first two authors contributed equally to this work.

Yee, E., Drucker, D.M., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2010). fMRI-adaptation evidence of overlapping neural representations for objects related in function or manipulation. NeuroImage, 50, 753-763.

Myung, J., Blumstein, S.E., Yee, E., Sedivy, J.C., Thompson-Schill, S.L., & Buxbaum, L.J. (2010). Impaired access to manipulation features in apraxia: Evidence from eyetracking and semantic judgment tasks. Brain and Language, 112, 101-112.

Yee, E., Overton, E., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2009). Looking for meaning: Eye movements are sensitive to overlapping semantic features, not association. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16(5), 869-874.

Yee, E., Blumstein, S.E., & Sedivy, J.C. (2008). Lexical-semantic activation in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 592-612.

Yee, E., & Sedivy, J. (2006). Eye movements to pictures reveal transient semantic activation during spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32(1), 1-14.

Yee, E. (2005). The Time Course of Lexical Activation During Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence from Unimpaired and Aphasic Individuals [Printer-friendly – smaller margins/spacing than official version]. Doctoral Thesis. Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences, Brown University.

Ullman, M. T., Izvorski, R., Love, T., Yee, E., Swinney, D., & Hickok, G. (2005). Neural correlates of lexicon and grammar: Evidence from the production, reading and judgment of inflection in aphasia. Brain and Language, 93, 185-238.

Yee, E., Blumstein, S.E., & Sedivy, J. (2004). The Time course of lexical activation in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia: Evidence from eye movements. Brain and Language, 91, 62-63.

Yee, E., & Sedivy J. (2001). Using eye movements to track the spread of semantic information during spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 14^th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.