Publications

Wolff, P., & Holmes, K. (under review). Linguistic Relativity.

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (under revision). Structure-mapping in metaphor comprehension.

Barbey, A. K., & Wolff, P. (under revision). Composing causal relations in force dynamics.

Wolff, P., Barbey, A. K., & Hausknecht, M. (in press). For want of a nail: How absences cause events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (PDF format)

Malt, B. & Wolff, P. (2010). Words and the world: How words capture human experience. Oxford University Press.

Wolff, P., & Malt, B. (2010). Introduction: The language-thought interface. In B. Malt, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world: How words capture human experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wolff, P., Jeon, G., Klettke, B., & Yu, L. (2010). Force creation and possible causers across languages. In B. Malt, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world: How words capture human experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (PDF format)

Wolff, P., Hausknecht, M., & Holmes, K. (2010). Absent causes, present effects: How omissions cause events. In J. Bohnemeyer & E. Pederson (Eds.), Event representation in language: Encoding events at the language cognition interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wolff, P., Jeon, G., & Yu, L. (2009). Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and external causation. Language and Cognition. (PDF format)

Wolff, P., & Ventura, T. (2009). When Russians learn English: How the semantics of causation may change. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(2). (PDF format)

Wolff, P. (2008). Dynamics and the perception of causal events. In T. Shipley & J. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: How humans see, represent, and act on events (pp. 555 - 587). Oxford University Press. (PDF Format)

Barbey, A., & Wolff, P. (2007). Learning causal structure from reasoning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF format)

Wolff, P. (2007). Representing causation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 82-111. (PDF Format)

Wolff, P., Jeon, G. & Yeh, K. (2006). Causal agents and the individuation of events in English, Chinese, and Korean. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. (PDF format)

Ahn, W., Goldstone, R. L., Love, B. C., Markman, A. B., & Wolff, P. (2005). Categorization inside and outside of the lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Song, G., & Wolff, P. (2005). Linking perceptual properties to the linguistic expression of causation. In M. Achard & S. Kemmer (Eds.), Language, culture, and mind (pp. 237-250). CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.
(PDF Format)

Wolff, P., Klettke, B., Ventura, T., & Song, G. (2005). Categories of causation across cultures. In W. Ahn, R. L., Goldstone, B. C., Love, A. B., Markman, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Categorization inside and outside of the lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (PDF Format)

Klettke, B. & Wolff, P. (2003). Differences in how English and German speakers talk and reason about CAUSE. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. (PDF Format)

Wolff, P. (2003). Direct causation in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events. Cognition, 88, 1-48. (PDF Format)

Wolff, P., & Song, G. (2003). Models of causation and the semantics of causal verbs. Cognitive Psychology, 47, 276-332. (PDF Format)

Wolff, P., & Ventura, T. (2003). When Russians learn English: How the meaning of causal verbs may change. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, & F. Conlin (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 822-833). Boston: Cascadilla Press.(PDF Format)

Wolff, P., & Zettergren, M. (2002). A vector model of causal meaning. In
Proceedings of the Twenty-forth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.(PDF Format)

Wolff, P., Song, G., & Driscoll, D. (2002). Models of causation and causal verbs. In M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston, and S. Neuval (Eds.), Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Main Session, Vol. 1. (pp. 607-622) Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.(PDF Format)

Gentner, D., Bowdle, B., Wolff, P., & Boronat, C. (2001). Metaphor is like analogy. In D. Gentner, K. J. Holyoak, & B. Kokinov (Eds.), The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (2000). Evidence for role-neutral initial processing of metaphors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory,& Cognition, 26, 529-541.(PDF format)

Wolff, P., & Medin, D. (2000). Measuring the evolution and devolution of folkbiological knowledge. In L. Maffi (Ed.), Language, Knowledge and the Environment: The Interdependence of Biological and Cultural
Diversity
(pp. 260-278). Smithsonian Institution Press. (PDF format)

Gentner, D., & Wolff, P. (2000). Metaphor and knowledge change. In E. Dietrich, & A. Markman, Cognitive Dynamics: Conceptual Change in Humans and Machines (pp. 295-342). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. (PDF format)

Wolff, P., Medin, D., & Pankratz, C. (1999). Evolution and devolution of folkbiological knowledge. Cognition, 73, 177-204. (PDF format)

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (1997). On the lexicalization of causal events. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 707-718). Boston: Cascadilla Press. (PDF format)

Gentner, D., & Wolff, P. (1997). Alignment in the processing of metaphor. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 331-355. (PDF format)

Gentner, D., Brem, S., Ferguson, R., Wolff, P., Markman, A. B. & Forbus, K. D. (1997). Analogy in discovery: A case study of Johannes Kepler. In T. B. Ward, S. M. Smith, & J. Vaid (Eds.), Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes (pp. 403-459). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.

Gentner, D., Brem, S., Ferguson, R., Markman, A, Levidow, B. B., Wolff, P., & Forbus, K. (1997). Analogical reasoning and conceptual change: A case study of Johnannes Kepler. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6, 3-40.

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (1996). What language might tell us about the perception of cause. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 453-458). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF format)

Wolff, P., & Gentner, D. (1992). The time course of metaphor comprehension. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 504-509). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF format)

McConkie, G. W., Zola, D., Grimes, J., Kerr, P. W., Bryant, R. B., & Wolff, P. M. (1991). Children's eye movements during reading. In J. F. Stein (Ed.), Vision and Visual Dyslexia (pp. 251-262). London, England: The Macmillan Press, Ltd. (PDF format)

West, C. K., Farmer, J. A., & Wolff, P. M. (1991). Instructional design: Implications from Cognitive Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

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