Pecher, D., van Mierlo, H., Romers, C., Feersma Hoekstra, K., Possel, N., & Bouwmeester, S. (2023). Age categorization and stereotyping at work. Applied Cognitive Psychology. download article (here is an alternative document)
Pecher, D., & Zeelenberg, R. (2022). Does multisensory study benefit memory for pictures and sounds? Cognition, 226, 105181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105181 download article
Pecher, D., Wolters, F., & Zeelenberg, R. (2021). The Role of Motor Action in Long-Term Memory for Objects. In M. D. Robinson & L. E. Thomas (Eds.). Embodied Psychology: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3_13 download article
Wagenmakers, E.-J., & Pecher, D. (2020). Koppen en staarten. Skepter, 33, 16-20. (In Dutch) go to post
Zeelenberg, R., Remmers, S., Blauwgeers, F, & Pecher, D. (2020). The influence of post study action congruency on memory consolidation. Experimental Psychology, 67(4), 211–223. https://doi.org/10.1027/a000001 download article
Thomas, E. R., Stötefalk, N., Pecher, D., & Zeelenberg, R. (2019). Alignment effects for pictured objects: Do instructions to “imagine picking up an object” prime actions? Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 45, 1346-1354. doi:10.1037/xhp0000676 download article
Pecher, D. (2019). Finding Lisa with SAM: #AS50 and a simple story of forgetting and remembering. Blog post for a digital event of the Psychonomic Society celebrating the Atkinson & Shiffrin (1967) model. go to post
Pecher, D., Roest, S., & Zeelenberg, R. (2019). The effect of grasp compatibility in go/no-go and two-choice tasks. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00917-5 download article download data
Canits, I., Pecher, D., & Zeelenberg, R. (2018). Effects of grasp compatibility on long-term memory for objects. Acta Psychologica, 182, 65-74. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.11.009 download article download materials and data
Pecher, D. & Zeelenberg, R. (2018). Boundaries to grounding abstract concepts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0132 download article
Carr, E. W., Huber, D. E., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R. Halberstadt, J., & Winkielman, P. (2017). The ugliness-in-averageness effect: Tempering the warm glow of familiarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112, 787-812. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000083 download article
Pecher, D. (2017). Curb Your Embodiment. Topics in Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/tops.12311 download article
Pecher, D. & Zwaan, R. A. (2017). Flexible concepts: A commentary on Kemmerer (2016). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32, 444-446. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1274413 download article
Topolinski, S., Boecker, L., Erle, T., Bakhtiari, G., & Pecher, D. (2017). Matching Between Oral Inward-Outward Movements of Object Names and Oral Movements Associated with Denoted Objects. Cognition and Emotion, 31, 3-18. doi:10.1080/02699931.2015.1073692 download article
Zwaan, R.A., Pecher, D. Paolacci, G., Bouwmeester, S., Zeelenberg, R., Verkoeijen, P., & Dijkstra, K. (2017). Participant nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1348-y download article download supplementary materials
Roest, S., Pecher, D., Naeije, L, & Zeelenberg, R. (2016). Alignment effects in beer mugs: Automatic action activation or response competition? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1130-7 download article
Zeelenberg, R. & Pecher, D. (2016). The role of motor action in memory for objects and words. In B. Ross (Ed.). The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 64 (pp. 161-193). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. download article
Pecher, D. & Van Dantzig, S. (2016). The role of action simulation on intentions to purchase products. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 33, 971-974. doi: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2016.03.006 download article download supplementary materials
de Jonge, M., Tabbers, H. K., Pecher, D., Jang, Y., & Zeelenberg, R. (2015). The efficacy of self-paced study in multitrial learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 851-858. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000046 download article
Pecher, D., Van Mierlo, H., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Zeelenberg, R. (2015). The burden of secrecy? No effect on hill slant estimation and beanbag throwing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, e65–e72. doi: 10.1037/xge0000090 download article
Pecher, D., & Zeelenberg, R. (2015). Grounded Knowledge. In Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn (eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. download article
Van Weelden, L., Schilperoord, J., Swerts, M., & Pecher, D. (2015). The role of shape in semantic memory organization of objects: An experimental study using PI-release. Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000284 download article
Zeelenberg, R., de Jonge, M., Tabbers, H. K. & Pecher, D. (2015). The effect of presentation rate on foreign language vocabulary learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 1101-1115. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2014.975730 request article
Zeelenberg, R., & Pecher, D. (2015). A method for simultaneously counterbalancing condition order and the assignment of stimulus materials to conditions. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 127-133. Doi: 10.3758/s13428-014-0476-9 download article
Pecher, D. (2014). The role of motor affordances in visual working memory. In Edouard Machery and Jesse Prinz (eds.). The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Perception and Concepts. New Prairie Press. doi: 10.4148/1944-3676.1087 download article
Quak, M., Pecher, D., & Zeelenberg, R. (2014). Effects of Motor Congruence on Visual Working Memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 2063-2070. doi:10.3758/s13414-014-0654-y download article
Topolinski, S., Maschmann, I. T., Pecher, D., & Winkielman, P. (2014). Oral Approach-Avoidance: Affective Consequences of Muscular Articulation Dynamics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 885-896. Doi: 10.1037/a0036477 download article
Zanolie, K. & Pecher, D. (2014). Number-induced shifts in spatial attention: A replication study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:987. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00987 download article corrigendum
Halberstadt, J., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Ip Wai, L., & Winkielman, P. (2013). Two faces of attractiveness: Making beauty-in-averageness appear and reverse. Psychological Science, 24, 2343-2346. doi:10.1177/0956797613491969 download article
Pecher, D. (2013) The perceptual representation of mental categories. In D. Reisberg (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. download chapter
Pecher, D. (2013). No role for motor affordances in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 2-13. download article
Pecher, D, de Klerk, R. M., Klever, L., Post, S., van Reenen, J. G., & Vonk, M. (2013). The role of affordances for working memory for objects. Journal of Cognitive Psychology,25, 107-118. download article
Pecher, D., & Winkielman, P. (2013). Grounded Cognition and Social Interaction. In B. Kaldis (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. download article
Bocanegra, B. R., Zeelenberg, R. (2012). Emotion potentiates response activation and inhibition in masked priming. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 9, 109. download article
Bocanegra, B.R., Huijding, J., & Zeelenberg, R. (2012). Beyond attentional bias: A perceptual bias in a dot-probe task. Emotion, 12, 1362-1366. download article
de Jonge, M., Tabbers, H. K., Pecher, D., & Zeelenberg, R. (2012). The effect of study time distribution on learning and retention: A Goldilocks principle for presentation rate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 405-412. download article
Jang, Y., Wixted, J. T., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Huber, D. E. (2012). Decomposing the interaction between retention interval and study/test practice: The role of retrievability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 962-975. download article
Oosterwijk, S., Winkielman, P., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. (2012). Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and non-emotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus. Memory & Cognition, 40, 93-100. download article
Zanolie, K., Van Dantzig, S., Boot, I., Wijnen, J., Schubert, T. W, Giessner, S., & Pecher, D. (2012). Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension. Brain and Cognition, 78, 50-58. download article
Zwaan. R. A., & Pecher, D. (2012). Revisiting mental simulation in language comprehension: Six replication attempts. PLoS ONE 7: e51382. download article
Bocanegra, B.R., & Zeelenberg, R. (2011). Emotional cues enhance the attentional effects on spatial and temporal resolution. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 1071-1076. download article
Bocanegra, B.R., & Zeelenberg, R. (2011). Emotion-induced trade-offs in spatialtemporal vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 272-282. download article
Boot, I. & Pecher, D. (2011). Representation of categories: Metaphorical use of the container schema. Experimental Psychology, 58, 162-170. download article
Borghi, A. M., & Pecher, D. (2011). Introduction to the special topic Embodied and Grounded Cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:187. download article
Collins, J., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Coulson, S. (2011). Modality switching in a property verification task: An ERP study of what happens when candles flicker after high heels click. Frontiers in Cognition, 2:10. download article
Pecher, D., & Boot, I. (2011). Numbers in Space: Differences between concrete and abstract situations. Frontiers in Cognition, 2:121. download article
Pecher, D., Boot, I., & Van Dantzig, S. (2011). Abstract concepts: Sensory-motor grounding, metaphors, and beyond. In B. Ross (Ed.). The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 54 (pp. 217-248). Burlington: Academic Press. download article
Pecher, D., Boot, I., van Dantzig, S., Madden, C. J., Huber, D. E., & Zeelenberg, R. (2011). The sound of enemies and friends in the neighborhood: Phonology mediates activation of neighbor semantics. Experimental Psychology, 58, 454-463. download article
Van Dantzig, S., Cowell, R. A., Zeelenberg, R., & Pecher, D. (2011). A sharp image or a sharp knife: Norms for the modality-exclusivity of 774 concept-property items. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 145-154. download article
Van Dantzig, S. & Pecher, D. (2011). Spatial attention is driven by mental simulations. Frontiers in Cognition, 2:121. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Bocanegra, B. R., & Pecher, D. (2011). Emotion-induced impairments in speeded word recognition. Experimental Psychology, 58, 400-411. download article
Boot, I. & Pecher, D. (2010) Similarity is closeness: Metaphorical mapping in a conceptual task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 942-954. download article
Pecher, D., van Dantzig, S. Boot, I., Zanolie, K., & Huber, D. E. (2010). Congruency between word position and meaning is caused by task induced spatial attention. Frontiers in Cognition, 1:30. download article
Zeelenberg, R., & Bocanegra, B.R. (2010). Auditory emotional cues enhance visual perception. Cognition, 115, 202-206. download article
Bocanegra, B.R., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Dissociating emotion-induced blindness and hypervision. Emotion, 9, 865-873. download article
Bocanegra, B.R., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Emotion improves and impairs early vision. Psychological Science, 20, 707-713. download article
Camp, G., Pecher, D., Schmidt, H. G., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Are Independent Probes Truly Independent? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 934-942. download article
Pecher, D., de Rooij, J., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Does a pear growl? Interference from semantic properties of orthographic neighbors. Memory & Cognition, 37, 541-546. download article
Pecher, D., Van Dantzig, S., & Schifferstein, H. N. J. (2009). Concepts are not represented by imagery. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 914-919. download article download materials
Pecher, D., Van Dantzig, S., Zwaan, R. A., & Zeelenberg, R. (2009). Language comprehenders retain implied shape and orientation of objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1108-1114. download article
Van Dantzig, S., Zeelenberg, R., & Pecher, D. (2009). Unconstraining theories of embodied cognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 345-351. download article
Boot, I. & Pecher, D. (2008). Word recognition is affected by the meaning of orthographic neighbors: Evidence from semantic decision tasks. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 375-393. download article
Van Dantzig, S., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Perceptual processing affects conceptual processing. Cognitive Science, 32, 579-590. download article
Van Dantzig, S., Pecher, D., & Zwaan, R. A. (2008). Approach and Avoidance as Action Effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 61, 1298-1306. download article
Camp, G., Pecher, D., & Schmidt, H.G. (2007). No retrieval-induced forgetting using item-specific independent cues: Evidence against a general inhibitory account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 950-958. download article
Pecher, D., Zanolie, K., & Zeelenberg, R. (2007). Verifying visual properties in sentence verification facilitates picture recognition memory. Experimental Psychology, 54, 173-179. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Wagenmakers, E.M., & Rotteveel, M. (2006). The impact of emotion on perception: bias or enhanced processing? Psychological Science, 17, 287-291. download article
Barsalou, L. W., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Simmons, W. K., & Hamann, S. B. (2005). Multi-modal simulation in conceptual processing. In: W. Ahn, R. Goldstone, B. Love, A. Markman, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Categorization inside and outside the lab: Festschrift in honor of Douglas L. Medin, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. download article
Camp, G., Pecher, D. & Schmidt, H. G. (2005). Retrieval-induced forgetting in implicit memory tests: The role of test awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 490-494. download article
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Wagenmakers, E. M. (2005). Enemies and Friends in the Neighborhood: Orthographic Similarity Effects in Semantic Categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 121-128. download article
Pecher, D., & Zwaan, R. A. (2005). Introduction to Grounding Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking. In D. Pecher & R. A. Zwaan (Eds.), The Grounding of Cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pecher, D. & Zwaan, R. A. (Eds.) (2005). The Grounding of Cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zeelenberg, R. (2005). Encoding specificity manipulations do affect retrieval from memory. Acta Psychologica, 119, 107-121. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Boot, I., & Pecher, D. (2005). Activating the critical lure during study is unnecessary for false recognition. Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 316-326. download article
Malmberg, K.J., Zeelenberg, R., & Shiffrin, R.M. (2004). Turning up the noise or turning down the volume? On the nature of the impairment of episodic recognition memory by midazolam. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 540-549. download article
Pecher, D., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2004). Priming for new associations in animacy decision: Evidence for context dependency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 1211-1231. download article
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L. W. (2004). Sensorimotor simulations underlie conceptual representations: modality-specific effects of prior activation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 164-167. download article
Raaijmakers, J.G.W. & Zeelenberg, R. (2004). Evaluating the evidence for nonconscious processes in producing false memories. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 169-172. download article
Wagenmakers, E.M., Steyvers, M., Raaijmakers, J.G.W., Shiffrin, R.M., van Rijn, H., & Zeelenberg, R. (2004). A model for evidence accumulation in lexical decision. Cognitive Psychology, 48, 332-367. download article
Wagenmakers, E.M., Zeelenberg, R., Steyvers, M., Shiffrin, R.M., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2004). Nonword repetition in lexical decision: Support for two opposing processes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 1191-1210. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Wagenmakers, E.M., & Shiffrin, R.M. (2004). Nonword repetition priming in lexical decision reverses as a function of study task and speed stress. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 270-277. download article
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Barsalou, L. W. (2003). Verifying conceptual properties in different modalities produces switching costs. Psychological Science, 14, 119-124. download article download materials
Zeelenberg, R., & Pecher, D. (2003). Evidence for long-term cross-language repetition priming in conceptual implicit memory tasks. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 80-94. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D., Shiffrin, R. M., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (2003). Semantic context effects and priming in word association. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 653-660. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Plomp, G., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2003). Can false memories be created through nonconscious processes? Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 403-412. download article
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2002). Associative priming in a masked perceptual identification task: Evidence for automatic processes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 1157-1173. download article
Zeelenberg, R., & Pecher. D. (2002). False memories and lexical decision: Even twelve primes do not cause long-term semantic priming. Acta Psychologica, 109, 269-284. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (2002). Associative repetition priming: A selective review and theoretical implications. In J. Bowers and C. Marsolek (Eds.), Rethinking implicit memory (pp. 261-283). Oxford University Press. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Wagenmakers, E.M., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2002). Repetition priming in implicit memory tasks: Prior study causes enhanced discriminability, not only bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 38-47. download article
Pecher, D. (2001). Perception is a two-way junction: Feedback semantics in word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8(3), 545-551. download article
Wagenmakers, E.M., Zeelenberg, R., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2000). Testing the counter model for perceptual identification: Effects of repetition priming and word frequency. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 662-667. download article
Wagenmakers, E.M., Zeelenberg, R., Schooler, L.J., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (2000). A criterion-shift model for enhanced discriminability in perceptual identification: A note on the counter model. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 718-726. download article
Pecher, D., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (1999). Automatic priming effects for new associations in lexical decision and perceptual identification. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 593-614. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Shiffrin, R.M., & Raaijmakers, J.G.W. (1999). Priming in a free association task as a function of association directionality. Memory & Cognition, 27, 956-961. download article
Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (1998). Does pizza prime coin? Perceptual priming in lexical decision and pronunciation. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 401-418. download article
Zeelenberg, R., Pecher, D., De Kok, D., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (1998) Inhibition for nonword primes in lexical decision re-examined: The influence of instructions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1068-1079. download article
Pecher, D., & Raaijmakers, J. G. W. (1996). Episodisch en semantisch geheugen: Twee gescheiden systemen? (Episodic and semantic memory: Two separate systems?) Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie (Dutch Journal for Psychology), 51, 51-61.
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