PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2011). Different Bodies, Different Minds: The body-specificity of language and thought. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(6), 378–383.
		This paper summarizes some of the first tests of the body-specificity hypothesis. Read about these studies in Scientific American, or hear about them on Futureproof Science Radio.
PDF -		Brookshire, G. & Casasanto, D. (2012). Motivation and Motor Control: Hemispheric specialization for approach motivation reverses with handedness. PLoS ONE, 7(4): e36036.
PDF -		Jasmin, K. & Casasanto, D. (2012). The QWERTY Effect: How typing shapes the meanings of words. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 19(3), 499-504.
		Read about this study in The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Wired, New Scientist, Men's Health, MSNBC, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe or The Economist.
		Read our reply to Mark Liberman's Language Log post about the QWERTY effect here.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. & Henetz, T. (2012). Handedness shapes children's abstract concepts. Cognitive Science, 36, 359–372.
		Read about this study in Science News.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. & Chrysikou, E.G. (2011). When Left is "Right": Motor fluency shapes abstract concepts. Psychological Science, 22(4), 419-422.
		Read about this study in The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Science Daily, Gerhirn und Geist, Men's Health, or New Scientist.
LINK -		Casasanto, D. & Jasmin, K. (2010). Good and Bad in the Hands of Politicians: Spontaneous gestures during positive and negative speech. PLoS ONE, 5(7), e11805.
		Read about this study in US News and World Report, MSNBC, Science Daily, USA TODAY, or The Boston Globe.
PDF -		Willems, R.M., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Body-specific representations of action verbs: Neural evidence from right- and left-handers. Psychological Science, 21(1), 67-74.
LINK -		Willems, R.M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2009). Body-specific motor imagery of hand actions: Neural evidence from right-and left-handers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(39), 1-9.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2009). Embodiment of Abstract Concepts: Good and bad in right- and left-handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(3), 351-367.
		Read about this study in Newsweek, Science News, New Scientist, The APA Monitor, or The Boston Globe.

Mental Metaphors

PDF -		Dolscheid, S., Shayan, S., Majid, A., & Casasanto, D. (In Press). The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Psychological Science.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. & Dijkstra, K. (2010). Motor Action and Emotional Memory. Cognition, 115(1), 179-185.
		Read about this study in Wired, New Scientist, or Science Daily.
PDF -		Brookshire, G., Ivry, R., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Modulation of motor-meaning congruity effects for valenced words. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1940-1945). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2010). Space for Thinking. In Language, Cognition, and Space: State of the art and new directions. V. Evans & P. Chilton (Eds.), 453-478, London: Equinox Publishing.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2009). When is a Linguistic Metaphor a Conceptual Metaphor? In V. Evans & S. Pourcel (Eds.), 127-145, New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2008). Conceptual Affiliates of Metaphorical Gestures. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Communication, & Cognition. Brighton, UK.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2008). Similarity and Proximity: When does close in space mean close in mind? Memory & Cognition, 36(6), 1047-1056.

Space & Time

PDF -		Casasanto, D. & Jasmin, K. (2012). The Hands of Time: Temporal gestures in English speakers. Cognitive Linguistics, 23(4), 643 – 674.
PDF -		Casasanto, D., Fotakopoulou, O, & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Space and Time in the Child's Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry. Cognitive Science, 34, 387-405.
		Read about this study in US News and World Report or Science News.
PDF -		Merritt, D.J., Casasanto, D., & Brannon, E.M. (2010). Do Monkeys Think in Metaphors? Representations of Space and Time in Monkeys and Humans. Cognition, 117, 191-202.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. & Bottini, R. (2010). Can mirror-reading reverse the flow of time? In Spatial Cognition VII. C. Hölscher, T. F. Shipley, M. Olivetti Belardinelli, J. A. Bateman, & N. S. Newcombe (Eds.), 335-345, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
PDF -		Bottini, R. & Casasanto, D. (2010). Implicit spatial length modulates time estimates, but not vice versa. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1348-1353). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. & Boroditsky, L. (2008). Time in the Mind: Using space to think about time. Cognition, 106, 579-593.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2008). Who's afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Cross-linguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language Learning, 58(1), 63-79.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2005). Perceptual Foundations of Abstract Thought. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT.

Mental Simulation and Mental Imagery

PDF -		Van Ackeren, M., Casasanto, D., Bekkering, H., Hagoort, P., & Rueschemeyer, S.A. (In Press). Pragmatics in Action: Indirect Requests Engage Theory of Mind Areas and the Cortical Motor Network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00274
PDF -		Willems, R.M., Labruna, L., D’Esposito, M., Ivry, R., & Casasanto, D. (2011). A Functional Role for the Motor System in Language Understanding: Evidence From Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Psychological Science, 22(7), 849–854.
PDF -		Willems, R.M. & Casasanto, D. (2011). Flexibility in embodied language understanding. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(116), 1-11.
PDF -		Willems, R.M., Toni, I., Hagoort, P., & Casasanto, D. (2010). Neural dissociations between action verb understanding and motor imagery. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22:10, 2387-2400.
PDF -		Killgore, W., Glahn, D., & Casasanto, D. (2005). Development and validation of the design organization test (DOT): A rapid screening instrument for assessing visuospatial ability. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27, 449-459.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2003). Hemispheric specialization in prefrontal cortex: effects of verbalizability, imageability and meaning. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 16, 361-382.

Language & Music

PDF -		Fedorenko, E., Patel, A., Casasanto, D., Winawer, J., & Gibson, T. (2009). Structural Integration in Language and Music: Evidence for a shared system. Memory & Cognition, 37(1), 1-9.
PDF -		Casasanto, D., Phillips, W., & Boroditsky, L. (2003). Do we think about music in terms of space: metaphoric representation of musical pitch. Proceedings of 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA.

Human Memory

PDF -		Rabin, M., Narayan, V., Kimberg, D., Casasanto, D., Glosser, G., Tracy, J., French, J., Sperling, M., & Detre, J. (2004) Functional MRI Predicts Postsurgical Memory following Temporal Lobectomy. Brain, 127, 2286–2298.
PDF -		Kounios, J., Bachman, P., Casasanto, D., Grossman, M., Smith, R., & Yang, W. (2003). Novel concepts mediate retrieval from human episodic associative memory: Evidence from event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters, 345, 157- 160.
PDF -		Casasanto, D., Killgore, W., Glosser, G., Maldjian, J., Alsop, D., Cooke, A., Grossman, M. & Detre, J. (2002). Neural Correlates of Successful and Unsuccessful Verbal Encoding. Brain & Language, 80, 287-295.

Reference and Commentary

PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2012). Whorfian Hypothesis. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (In Press). Gesture and Language Processing. In H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira, & R. Zemel (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2009). Review of Music, Language, and the Brain. Language and Cognition, 1(1), 143-146.
PDF -		Casasanto, D. (2005). Crying "Whorf". Science, 307, 1721-1722.