Max M Louwerse
Biographic Data
| ID | 3076977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max M Louwerse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max M |
| FAMILY NAME | Louwerse |
| SIGNATURE | LOUWERSE M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0328-7070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The right eye for fixations
Eye contact is critical in face-to-face social interactions. Prior research has shown that dialog partners primarily focus on the eyes of the speaker both when the speaker is speaking and, particularly, when the speaker is not. These findings are compatible with the communicative but specifically the social function of eye contact. This is in line with animal cognition literature showing that animals with more eye sclera tend to be more social. S…
Physiological responses to the overview effect
Little is known about the physiological responses to the overview effect and, more generally, the emotion of awe, complex epistemic and self-transcendent emotions that combine wonder, reverence and fear. In the current study, measurements of heart activity, skin conductance, and respiration, reflecting emotional arousal and valence, were analysed in combination with questionnaire data to determine their psychophysiological effects. The emotion wa…
Face to face
Making eye contact with our conversational partners is what is most common in multimodal communication. Yet, little is known about this behavior. Prior studies have reported different findings on what we look at in the narrator's face. Some studies show eye gaze is usually focused on our conversational partner's eyes, other studies have shown evidence for eye gaze primarily on the narrator's mouth, and yet others find evidence for fixations on th…
Text‐to‐speech and virtual reality agents in primary school classroom environments
Zipf’s law revisited
The ubiquitous inverse relationship between word frequency and word rank is commonly known as Zipf’s law. The theoretical underpinning of this law states that the inverse relationship yields decreased effort in both the speaker and hearer, the so-called principle of least effort. Most research has focused on showing an inverse relationship only for written monolog, only for frequencies and ranks of one linguistic unit, generally word unigrams, wi…
Learning in immersed collaborative virtual environments
Immersive virtual environments hold unexplored potential to scaffold and stimulate learning in multiple ways for the purpose of increasing potential learning gains. Yet, the number of implementations in educational settings remains very limited. One reason for limited implementation of immersive virtual environment applications may be a lack of recommendations for their effective design. Building on an extensive theoretical framework, this paper …
A systematic review of pedagogical agent research
Extracting Social Networks from Language Statistics
Knowledge regarding social information is commonly believed to be derived from sources such as formal relationships and interviews and can be plotted as complex networks. We explored whether social networks can also be extracted through other means by using language statistics. In three computational studies we computed first-order and higher-order (latent semantic analysis) co-occurrences of story characters in three novels. These statistical li…
Estimating Emotions Through Language Statistics and Embodied Cognition
Symbolic or Embodied Representations
Language statistics and individual differences in processing primary metaphors
Research in cognitive linguistics has emphasized the role of embodiment in metaphor comprehension, with experimental research showing activation of perceptual simulations when processing metaphors. Recent research in conceptual processing has demonstrated that findings attributed to embodied cognition can be explained through language statistics. The current study investigates whether language statistics explain processing of primary metaphors an…
Effects of Local and Global Context on Processing Sentences with Subject and Object Relative Clauses
Coh-Metrix
This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli. Characterizing such texts in terms of cohesion and coherence is challenging. Some computational tools are availab…
The Effect of Context on Humor
Two experiments were conducted to assess the effects of various constraints on the processing of jokes. Participants read humorous jokes and nonhumorous alternatives of the jokes, which were presented in 3 conditions that manipulated discourse context (comedy, political, and control). In Experiment 1, participants rated the funniness of texts and provided some recall data. In Experiment 2, participant's eye movements were collected to examine the…
Multi-dimensional register classification using bigrams
A corpus linguistic analysis investigated register classification using frequency of bigrams in nine spoken and two written corpora. Four dimensions emerged from a factor analysis using bigram frequencies shared across corpora: (1) Scripted vs. Unscripted Discourse, (2) Deliberate vs. Unplanned Discourse, (3) Spatial vs. Non-Spatial Discourse, and (4) Directional vs. Non-Directional Discourse. These findings were replicated in a second analysis. …
Coh-Metrix
The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse
(2004). The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse. Discourse Processes: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 169-172
Toward a Taxonomy of a Set of Discourse Markers in Dialog
Discourse markers are verbal and nonverbal devices that mark transition points in communication. They presumably facilitate the construction of a mental representation of the events described by the discourse. A taxonomy of these relational markers is one important beginning in investigations of language use. Although several taxonomies of coherence relations have been proposed for monolog, only a few have been proposed for dialog. This article a…
Coh-Metrix
This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli. Characterizing such texts in terms of cohesion and coherence is challenging. Some computational tools are availab…
Toward a Taxonomy of a Set of Discourse Markers in Dialog
Discourse markers are verbal and nonverbal devices that mark transition points in communication. They presumably facilitate the construction of a mental representation of the events described by the discourse. A taxonomy of these relational markers is one important beginning in investigations of language use. Although several taxonomies of coherence relations have been proposed for monolog, only a few have been proposed for dialog. This article a…
Language statistics and individual differences in processing primary metaphors
Research in cognitive linguistics has emphasized the role of embodiment in metaphor comprehension, with experimental research showing activation of perceptual simulations when processing metaphors. Recent research in conceptual processing has demonstrated that findings attributed to embodied cognition can be explained through language statistics. The current study investigates whether language statistics explain processing of primary metaphors an…
Effects of Local and Global Context on Processing Sentences with Subject and Object Relative Clauses
The Effect of Context on Humor
Two experiments were conducted to assess the effects of various constraints on the processing of jokes. Participants read humorous jokes and nonhumorous alternatives of the jokes, which were presented in 3 conditions that manipulated discourse context (comedy, political, and control). In Experiment 1, participants rated the funniness of texts and provided some recall data. In Experiment 2, participant's eye movements were collected to examine the…
Toward a Taxonomy of a Set of Discourse Markers in Dialog
Discourse markers are verbal and nonverbal devices that mark transition points in communication. They presumably facilitate the construction of a mental representation of the events described by the discourse. A taxonomy of these relational markers is one important beginning in investigations of language use. Although several taxonomies of coherence relations have been proposed for monolog, only a few have been proposed for dialog. This article a…
Coh-Metrix
The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse
(2004). The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse. Discourse Processes: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 169-172
Multi-dimensional register classification using bigrams
A corpus linguistic analysis investigated register classification using frequency of bigrams in nine spoken and two written corpora. Four dimensions emerged from a factor analysis using bigram frequencies shared across corpora: (1) Scripted vs. Unscripted Discourse, (2) Deliberate vs. Unplanned Discourse, (3) Spatial vs. Non-Spatial Discourse, and (4) Directional vs. Non-Directional Discourse. These findings were replicated in a second analysis. …
Coh-Metrix
This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli. Characterizing such texts in terms of cohesion and coherence is challenging. Some computational tools are availab…
The Effect of Context on Humor
Two experiments were conducted to assess the effects of various constraints on the processing of jokes. Participants read humorous jokes and nonhumorous alternatives of the jokes, which were presented in 3 conditions that manipulated discourse context (comedy, political, and control). In Experiment 1, participants rated the funniness of texts and provided some recall data. In Experiment 2, participant's eye movements were collected to examine the…
Language statistics and individual differences in processing primary metaphors
Research in cognitive linguistics has emphasized the role of embodiment in metaphor comprehension, with experimental research showing activation of perceptual simulations when processing metaphors. Recent research in conceptual processing has demonstrated that findings attributed to embodied cognition can be explained through language statistics. The current study investigates whether language statistics explain processing of primary metaphors an…
Effects of Local and Global Context on Processing Sentences with Subject and Object Relative Clauses
Symbolic or Embodied Representations
Extracting Social Networks from Language Statistics
Knowledge regarding social information is commonly believed to be derived from sources such as formal relationships and interviews and can be plotted as complex networks. We explored whether social networks can also be extracted through other means by using language statistics. In three computational studies we computed first-order and higher-order (latent semantic analysis) co-occurrences of story characters in three novels. These statistical li…
Estimating Emotions Through Language Statistics and Embodied Cognition
A systematic review of pedagogical agent research
Zipf’s law revisited
The ubiquitous inverse relationship between word frequency and word rank is commonly known as Zipf’s law. The theoretical underpinning of this law states that the inverse relationship yields decreased effort in both the speaker and hearer, the so-called principle of least effort. Most research has focused on showing an inverse relationship only for written monolog, only for frequencies and ranks of one linguistic unit, generally word unigrams, wi…
Learning in immersed collaborative virtual environments
Immersive virtual environments hold unexplored potential to scaffold and stimulate learning in multiple ways for the purpose of increasing potential learning gains. Yet, the number of implementations in educational settings remains very limited. One reason for limited implementation of immersive virtual environment applications may be a lack of recommendations for their effective design. Building on an extensive theoretical framework, this paper …
Text‐to‐speech and virtual reality agents in primary school classroom environments
Face to face
Making eye contact with our conversational partners is what is most common in multimodal communication. Yet, little is known about this behavior. Prior studies have reported different findings on what we look at in the narrator's face. Some studies show eye gaze is usually focused on our conversational partner's eyes, other studies have shown evidence for eye gaze primarily on the narrator's mouth, and yet others find evidence for fixations on th…
The right eye for fixations
Eye contact is critical in face-to-face social interactions. Prior research has shown that dialog partners primarily focus on the eyes of the speaker both when the speaker is speaking and, particularly, when the speaker is not. These findings are compatible with the communicative but specifically the social function of eye contact. This is in line with animal cognition literature showing that animals with more eye sclera tend to be more social. S…
Physiological responses to the overview effect
Little is known about the physiological responses to the overview effect and, more generally, the emotion of awe, complex epistemic and self-transcendent emotions that combine wonder, reverence and fear. In the current study, measurements of heart activity, skin conductance, and respiration, reflecting emotional arousal and valence, were analysed in combination with questionnaire data to determine their psychophysiological effects. The emotion wa…
Computer Science (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (10 works) · Natural language processing (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Perception (4 works)