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Matlock, T., Sparks, D., Matthews, J.L., Hunter, J., & Huette, S. (2012). Smashing new results on aspectual framing: How people describe car accidents. Studies in Language, 36, 700-721. [pdf]

Matlock, T. (2012). Framing political messages with grammar and metaphor. American Scientist, 100, 478-483. [pdf]

Fausey, C.M., & Matlock, T.  (2011).  Can grammar win elections?  Political Psychology, 32, 563–574.  [pdf]

Huang, Y., Matthews, J.L., Matlock, T., & Kallmann, M. (2011). Modeling gaze behavior for virtual demonstrators. In H. Högni Vilhjálmsson et al. (Eds.), Proceedings paper of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Reykjavík, Iceland, LNAI 6895 (pp. 155-161). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. [pdf]

Huette, S., Anderson, S., Matlock, T., & Spivey, M.J.  (2011).  A one-stage distributed processing account of linguistic negation. Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2037-2042).  Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.  [pdf]

Huette, S., Huang, Y., Kallmann, M., Matlock, T., & Matthews, J.L.  (2011).  Gesture variants and cognitive constraints for interactive virtual reality training systems.  Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. ACM press.   [pdf]

Matlock, T.  (2011).  The conceptual motivation of aspect.  In K. Panther and G. Radden (Eds.), Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon  (pp. 133-147) Amsterdam: Philadelphia: John Benjamins.   [pdf]

Matlock, T., Holmes, K.J., Srinivasan, M., & Ramscar, M.(2011). Even abstract motion influences the understanding of time. Metaphor and Symbol, 26, 260-271. [pdf]

Matthews, J.L., & Matlock, T.  (2011).  Understanding the link between spatial distance and social distance.  Social Psychology, 42, 185-192.  [pdf]

Anderson, S., Matlock, T., & Spivey, M.J.  (2010). On-line interactions of context and grammatical aspect. Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1198-1203). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.   [pdf]

Forte, M., Kurillo, G., & Matlock, T.  (2010).  Teleimmersive archaeology: Simulation and cognitive impact.  EuroMed 2010Digital Heritage (pp. 422-431).  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.   [pdf]

Matlock, T.  (2010).  Abstract motion is no longer abstract.  Language and Cognition, 2, 243-260.  [pdf]

Matthews, J.L., & Matlock, T.  (2010).  The spatial and temporal underpinnings of social distance.  Proceedings of Spatial Cognition VII (pp. 19-31). Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series.  [pdf]

Ramscar, M., Matlock, T., & Dye, M. (2010).  Running down the clock: the role of expectation in our understanding of time and motion.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 589-615.   [pdf]

Gibbs, R., W., & Matlock, T., (2008). Metaphor, imagination, and simulation: Psycholinguistic evidence. In R. Gibbs (Ed.) Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought (pp. 161-176). New York: Cambridge University Press.   [pdf]

Glushko, R.J., Maglio, P.P., Matlock, T., & Barsalou, L. (2008).  Categorization in the wild. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12, 129-135.  [pdf]

Bergen, B., Lindsay, S., Matlock, T., & Narayanan, S. (2007). Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence comprehension. Cognitive Science, 31, 733-764.   [pdf]

Fausey, C.M., Matlock, T., & Richardson, D.C. (2007). Agents and affordances: Listeners look for what they don’t hear. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Mahwah Society (pp.245-250)., NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 20.   [pdf]

Matthews, J.L., & Matlock, T. (2007). How spatial is social distance? Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p.1813). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.   [pdf]

Richardson, D.C., & Matlock, T. (2007). The integration of figurative language and static depictions: An eye movement study of fictive motion, Cognition, 102, 129-138.   [pdf]

Richardson, D.C., Matlock, T., Crosby, J.R., & Dale, R. (2006). Figurative, spontaneous, interactive and potentially offensive: Three projects with rich visual and linguistic stimuli. Paper presented at workshop: What have eye movements told us so far, and what is next? Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.   [pdf]

Matlock, T., & Richardson, D.C. (2006). The dynamics of fictive motion. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 47th Annual Meeting (p.133).   [pdf]

Matlock, T. (2006). Depicting fictive motion in drawings. In J. Luchenbroers, (Ed.), Cognitive Linguistics: Investigations across languages, fields, and philosophical boundaries. Amsterdam: John H. Benjamins.   [pdf]

Coulson, S., & Matlock, T. (2005). Cognitive Science. Handbook of pragmatics.   [pdf]

Matlock, T, Ramscar, M., & Boroditsky, L. (2005). The experiential link between spatial and temporal language. Cognitive Science, 29, 655-664.   [pdf]

Matlock, T. (2004). The conceptual motivation of fictive motion. In G. Radden & K.U. Panther (Eds.), Studies in linguistic motivation (pp. 221-248). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.   [pdf]

Matlock, T. (2004). Fictive motion as cognitive simulation. Memory & Cognition, 32, 1389-1400.   [pdf]

Matlock, T., & Richardson, D.C. (2004). Do eye movements go with fictive motion? Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society[pdf]

Matlock, T., Ramscar, M., & Boroditsky, L. (2003). The experiential basis of meaning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 792-797). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.   [pdf]

Maglio, P.P., Matlock, T, Gould, S.J., Koons, D., & Campbell, C.S. (2002). On understanding discourse in human-computer interaction. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 602-607.   [pdf]

Coulson, S., & Matlock, T. (2001). Metaphor and the space structuring model. Metaphor & Symbol, 16, 295-316.  [html]

Maglio, P.P., & Matlock, T. (1999). The conceptual structure of information space. In Munro, A., Benyon, D., & Hook, K. (Eds.), Social navigation of information space (pp.155-173). Springer Verlag.   [pdf]