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PUBLICATIONS

Pavan S. Brar, Elizabeth Pienkos, Alexander Porto, Helen J. Wood, Deepak Sarpal, Melissa A. Kalarchian, James B. Schreiber & Alexander Kranjec (2024) Methods and models for investigating anomalous experiences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, Philosophical Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2024.2305232

Callizo-Romero, C., Tutnjević, S., Pandza, M., Ouellet, M., Kranjec, A., Ilić, S., ... & Santiago, J. (2022). Does time extend asymmetrically into the past and the future? A multitask crosscultural study. Language and Cognition, 1-28.

Koelsch, L. E., & Kranjec, A. (2022). Revealing Levinas: Transcending moral and aesthetic distinctions between form and content through poetic gamespersonship. Middle Voices, 2(1), 4.

Santiago, J., Escámez, O., Callizo, C., Göksun, T., & Kranjec, A. (2021). How are Spatial Distance, Temporal Distance and Temporal Valuation Related?. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).

Dik, F. N., Özer, D., Eskioğlu, A., Kranjec, A., & Göksun, T. (2021). The asymmetry between descriptions of vertical and horizontal spatial relations. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).

Callizo-Romero, C., Tutnjević, S., Pandza, M., Ouellet, M., Kranjec, A., Ilić, S., Gu, Y., Göksun, T., Chahboun, S., Casasanto, D. & Santiago, J. (2020). Temporal focus and time spatialization across cultures. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (link)

Kranjec, A., & Skov, M. (2020). Visualizing Aesthetics Across Two Centuries. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 0276237420905308. (pdf)

Wallace, S. E., Brown, E. V. D., Simpson, R. C., D’Acunto, K., Kranjec, A., Rodgers, M., & Agostino, C. (2019). A Comparison of Electronic and Paper Versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 33(3), 272-278. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Lamanna, L., Guzman, E., Plante, C., Reysen, S., Gerbasi, K., Roberts, S., & Fein, E. (2019). Illusory Body Perception and Experience in Furries. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Lehet M., Woods A.J., & Chatterjee, A. (2019) Time Is Not More Abstract Than Space in Sound. Frontiers in  Psychology. 10:48. (link)

Kranjec, A. (2018). Representational Biases in Space and Language. In T. Hubbard (Ed.), Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition (pp. 94-106). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Verbos, J., Wallace, S., & Kranjec, A. (2017). Non-Symbolic Exact Quantity Representation in a Language Impaired Population. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (link)

Özer, D., Kranjec, A., Balcı, F., & Göksun, T. (2017).  The Effects of Duration Words and Spatial-Temporal Metaphors on Perceived Duration. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (link)

Kostek, M., Polaski, A., Kolber, B., Ramsey, A., Kranjec, A., & Szucs, K. (2016). A protocol of manual tests to measure sensation and pain in humans. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (link)

Alvarez de Cienfuegos, E., Kranjec, A., & Santiago, J. (2016, February 17). Sound symbolism and construal level. Retrieved from osf.io/c6vhf 

Quandt, L. C., Cardillo, E. R., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2015).Fronto-temporal regions encode the manner of motion in spatial language. Neuroscience Letters. (pdf)

Woods, A.J., Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Chatterjee, A. (2015). Expertise and Decision-making in American Football. Frontiers in Psychology. (link)

Kranjec, A. (2015). Conceptual Art Made Simple for Neuroaesthetics. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Special Issue: Neuroaesthetics: Neuroscience of Aesthetics). (link)

Göksun, T., Kranjec, A., Chatterjee, A. (2014). The development of visual art preferences. Proceedings of the 23rd International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. (pdf)

Kranjec, A. (2014). What Can Conceptual Art Teach Neuroaesthetics? Proceedings of the 23rd International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Lupyan, G., Chatterjee, A. (2014). Categorical Biases in Perceiving Spatial Relations. PLoS ONE. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Chatterjee, A. (2014). Pitch Affects Estimates of Space but not Vice Versa. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Woods, A.J., Hamilton, R.H., Kranjec, A., Minhas, P., Bikson, M, Yu, J., Chatterjee, A. (2014). Space, Time, and Causality in the Human Brain. Neuroimage. (pdf)

Kranjec, A. (2013). Thought is a Material: Talking with Mel Bochner about Space, Art, and Language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 25:12, 2015-2024. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Chatterjee, A. (2013). Space and Time are Mutually Contagious in Sound. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-fourth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Ianni, G., & Chatterjee, A. (2013). Schemas reveal spatial relations to a patient with simultanagnosia. Cortex. (pdf)

Schmidt, G. L., Cardillo, E. R., Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Widick, P., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). Not all analogies are created equal: Associative and categorical analogy processing following brain damage. Neuropsychologia. (pdf)

Cardillo, E. R., Watson, C. E., Schmidt, G. L., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). From novel to familiar: Tuning the brain for metaphors. Neuroimage.(pdf)

Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., Schmidt, G., Lehet, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). Deconstructing events: The neural bases for space, time, and causality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24:1, 1-16. (pdf)

*Amorapanth, P., *∆Kranjec, A., Bromberger, B., Lehet, M., Widick, P., Woods, A., Kimberg, D. & Chatterjee, A. (2012). Language, perception, and the schematic representation of spatial relations. Brain and Language. (pdf)

(*The first two authors contributed equally to this work ∆ Corresponding Author)

Kranjec, A., Amorapanth, P., Chatterjee, A. (2012). The Schematic Representation of Spatial Relations: Evidence from Group and Single-Case Lesion Studies. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-third annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., & McDonough, L. (2011). The implicit and explicit embodiment of time. Journal of Pragmatics. 43: 3, 735-738. (Special Issue: The Language of Space and Time) (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Chatterjee, A. (2010). Are temporal concepts embodied? A challenge for cognitive neuroscience. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00240. (Special Issue: Embodied and grounded cognition) (pdf)

Cardillo, E., Schmidt, G., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Stimulus design is an obstacle course: 560 Matched literal and metaphorical sentences for testing neural hypotheses about metaphor. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 651-664. (pdf)

Delamater, A., Kranjec, A., & Fein, M. (2010). Differential outcome effects in Pavlovian biconditional ambiguous cue occasion setting tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 36:4, 41-481. (pdf)

Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Bromberger, B., Chatterjee, A. (2010) A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer. PLoS ONE. 5(7): e11667. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011667 (pdf)

Press: Referees’ Calls May Get Lost in Their Translation. The New York Times.

Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., Schmidt, G., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time. Cognition, 114:1, 111-116. (pdf)

Schmidt, G., Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Beyond Laterality: A Critical Assessment of Research on the Neural Basis of Metaphor. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16:1-5. (pdf)

Kranjec, A. (2006). Extending Spatial Frames of Reference to Temporal Concepts. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 447-452). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)

PRESENTATIONS & PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Guzman, E., Hartung, F., Pyles, J., Sienkewicz, J., Chatterjee, A.& Kranjec, A. (2019). Thinking about Beauty and Function Using FMRI. 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Kranjec, A., Verbos, J., & Wallace, S. (2017). The effect of aphasia on nonverbal counting tasks. 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Santiago, J., Flumini, A., Chahboun, S., Kagan Porsuk, Y., Chai, K., Ouellet, M., Casasanto, D., Tutnjević, S., Lavallee, J., Göksun, T., & Kranjec, A. (2016). Attentional Focus and the Conceptual Representation of Time. 3rd International Conference on Time Perspective. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Verbos, J., Wallace, S., & Kranjec, A. (2016). The effect of language impairment on non-symbolic exact quantity representation. 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Kranjec, A., Sienkewicz, J., Robinson, C., & Buchheit, A. (2015). Finding Meaning in Neuroaesthetics. Poster at 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA.

Quandt, L. C., Cardillo, E. R., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). Fronto-temporal regions encode the manner of motion during reading. Talk at 44th Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Göksun, T., Kranjec, A., Chatterjee, A. (2014). The development of visual art preferences. Talk at the 23rd International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, New York, NY.

Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Chatterjee, A. (2014). Pitch Affects Estimates of Space but not Vice Versa. Talk at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada.

Dilmore, T., Wallace, S., & Kranjec, A. (2014). Rorschach Assessment in Aphasia Patients. 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Kranjec, A. (2013). Conceptualizing Space: Between Art and Neuroscience. Talk at the 32nd International Human Science Research Conference, Aalborg, Denmark.

Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Chatterjee, A. (2013). Space and Time are Mutually Contagious in Sound. Talk at the  Talk at the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany. 

Kranjec, A. (2013) Conceptual Art and Cognitive Science: A Case Study in Space.  Poster at the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany. 

Woods, A., Chatterjee, A., Kranjec, A., Minhaus, P., Bikson, M. & Hamilton, R. (2013). Space, time, and causality in the brain: a tDCS study. 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Kranjec, A. (2012). History and Future of a Humanistic Neuroscience.  Symposium: Humanistic Psychology's Implications for Four Psychology Specialties. American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.

Woods, A., Chatterjee, A., Kranjec, A., Minhaus, P., Bikson, M. & Hamilton, R. (2012). Space, Time, and Causal Inference: a tDCS study. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Kranjec, A. (2012). Single-case neuropsychological studies in the context of humanistic psychology. Theme session on Humanistic inroads in neuropsychology through assessment, diagnosis, research. Society for Humanistic Psychology Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Kranjec, A., Lupyan, G., Chatterjee, A. (2012). Biases in spatial perception reflect patterns of lexicalization. 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL.

Kranjec, A. (2012) Spatial meaning is more than language-deep. Talk presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

Kranjec, A., Ianni, G., & Chatterjee, A. (2011). Schemas make spatial relations visible for a patient with simultagnosia. 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Stahl, A., Tynan, E., Ranganathan, S., Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., Chatterjee, A., Golinkoff, R. M, & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2011). Across the divide: Infants notice changes in manner and path in an occlusion event. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC.

Kranjec, A., & Lupyan, G. (2010) Implicit verbal categories modulate spatial perception. Journal of Vision. 10 (7), p. 1328.

Stahl, A., Tynan, E., Song, L., Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., Chatterjee, A., Golinkoff, R. M, & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2010). Manner, interrupted: Infants detect manner changes in occlusion events. Poster presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Attending to Events: What, How, and Where? Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QC.

Cardillo, E., Kranjec, A., Schmidt, G., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). The Neural Career of Metaphor: an fMRI Study. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QC.

Schmidt, G., Cardillo, E., Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Categorical and Relational Verbal Analogy Processing Following Brain Damage. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QC.

Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E., Morgan, L., & Chatterjee, A. (2009). Paths, manners, and objects. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Schmidt, G., Cardillo, E., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee (2009). Nominal and predicate metaphor processing in left and right hemisphere lesions. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Kranjec, A. & McDonough, L. (2008). Temporal concepts and frames of reference: Thinking about time between language and space. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington D.C.

Kranjec, A. & McDonough, L. (2006). Making Sense of an Absurd Situation. Talk presented at the First UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, University of Sussex, Brighton, England.

Kranjec, A. (2006). A New Ambiguous Question for Assessing the Spatial Structure of Temporal Concepts. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY

Kranjec, A. (2006). Why Construct a New Ambiguous Instrument for Assessing the Spatial Structure of Temporal Concepts? Talk presented at the Brooklyn College In House Psychology Conference, Brooklyn, New York.

Kranjec, A., McDonough, L. (2005). Vertical Spatial Primes Influence Ego-Centered Temporal Concepts. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Delamater, A. & Kranjec, A. (2001). Differential Outcome Effects in a Pavlovian Ambiguous Cue Occasion Setting Task. Talk presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.

INVITED TALKS

From spatial concepts to conceptual art: Exploring ways to measure meaning-making. Psychology Faculty, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay. March, 2023.

Plenary Symposium on Neuroaesthetics, 23rd International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, New York, NY. August 2014.

Workshop on Cognitive Science and the Arts, 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada. July, 2014.

Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Friday Seminar Series. Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. May, 2012.

Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, Duquesne University. Pittsburgh, PA. Neuroscience on Trial: New Uses of Neuroscientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Litigation. (Moderator). February, 2012.

Faculty Seminar, Psychology Department, Duquesne University, Februrary, 2012.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. December, 2010.

Psychology Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. December, 2010.

Department of Psychology, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase NY. November, 2010.

Department of Psychology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN. November, 2010.

Department of Psychology Colloquium, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. October, 2010.

Department of Psychology Lecture Series, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ. December, 2009.

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania. October, 2009.

10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Theme Session: Spatial construals of time: theoretical and empirical issues. July, 2007.

Cognitive Science Group Colloquium, City University of New York Department of Philosophy, The Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY. March, 2007.

Neurology Department, University of Pennsylvania. April 2007.

DISSERTATION

Kranjec, A. (2006). Extending Spatial Frames of Reference to Temporal Concepts: An Embodied Perspective. The City University of New York, NY.