Daniel CasasantoPhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Profile:How is the diversity of the human experience reflected in the mind? Research in my lab explores how language, culture, and bodily experiences influence the way people think, feel, and make decisions. In exploring the malleability of the mind, we are uncovering universal processes by which people turn concrete interactions with their environment into abstract thoughts.
Recent Publications:Casasanto, D. & Chrysikou, E.G. (2011). When Left is "Right": Motor fluency shapes abstract concepts.* Psychological Science*, 22(4), 419-422.
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.
Casasanto, D., & Dijkstra, K. (2010). Motor Action and Emotional Memory. *Cognition*, 115(1), 179-185.
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.
Casasanto, D., & Jasmin, K. (2010). Good and Bad in the Hands of Politicians: Spontaneous gestures during positive and negative speech. *PLoSONE*, 5(7), e11805.
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 .
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.
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.
Casasanto, D. (2009). Embodiment of Abstract Concepts: Good and bad in right- and left-handers. *Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.*138(3), 351-367.
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.
Casasanto, D. (2009). Review of Music, Language, and the Brain. *Language and Cognition*, 1(1), 143-146.
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. (Won Memory & Cognition's Best Article Award)
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.
Casasanto, D. (2008). Who's afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Cross-linguistic differences in temporal language and thought. *Language Learning*, 58: 177, 63-79.
Casasanto, D. (2008). Similarity and Proximity: When does close in space mean close in mind? *Memory & Cognition*, 36(6), 1047-1056.
Casasanto, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2008). Time in the mind: Using space to think about time. *Cognition*, 106, 579-593.
Casasanto, D. (2005). Crying "Whorf!" *Science*, 307, 1721-1722.
80 Fifth Avenue, Rm 708
Phone Number/Extension:212 229 5727 x3195
Email:casasand@newschool.eduPersonal Website:http://www.casasanto.com Research Interests: Body-Specificity; Concepts; Linguistic Relativity; Mental Simulation; Metaphor; Time
CV (pdf):Casasanto CV
