Emiko J Muraki

Biographic Data

ID4600819
NAMEEmiko J Muraki
GIVEN NAMESEmiko J
FAMILY NAMEMuraki
SIGNATUREMURAKI E J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Calgary
ORCID0000-0001-9534-6538
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • That sounds exciting! Emotional iconicity facilitates processing and recall

    Open AccessDavid M Sidhu, Pragati Parajuli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2026

    We characterize arousal sound symbolism by analyzing the phonemes that predict ratings of 5,457 nonwords on arousal. • English words whose sounds are congruent with their arousal (e.g., “shock”) are responded to faster than incongruent words. • We find some evidence that individual personality differences in the experience of emotion moderate these effects. • Using a mega study data set of 1,551 items we find that caongruent words are more likely…

  • Contrasting the organization of concrete and abstract word meanings

    Open AccessVeronica Diveica, Emiko J Muraki et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

  • Abstract words are hard to acquire; Does social relevance help

    Open AccessFaris Mahmood, Emiko J Muraki et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

  • The Development of Abstract Word Meanings

    Open AccessEmiko J Muraki, Lorraine D REGGIN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    Extensive research has shown that children’s early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with age-of-acquisition data from large-scale vocabulary testing with children in grade 2 to college age. Earl…

  • Understanding with the body? Testing the role of verb relative embodiment across tasks at the interface of language and memory

    Open AccessFrancesca Frau, Luca Bischetti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2025

    Multiple representation accounts of conceptual knowledge argue that information associated with sensory-motor experience, in addition to pure linguistic information, contributes to word processing. A number of issues, however, remain under-investigated, including the extent to which these dimensions affect verb processing (rather than nouns), especially in languages other than English, and their role across different tasks along the language-memo…

  • The role of emotion in acquisition of verb meaning

    Open AccessEmiko J Muraki, Penny M PexmanARTICLECognition & Emotion2025Cited by: 1References: 24

    Children's earliest acquired words are often learned through sensorimotor experience, but it is less clear how children learn the meaning of concepts whose referents are less associated with sensorimotor experience. The Affective Embodiment Account postulates that children use emotional experience to learn more abstract word meanings. There is mixed evidence for this account; analyses using mega-study datasets suggest that negative or positively …

  • Unseen but influential associates

    Open AccessEmiko J Muraki, Penny M PexmanARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2024

  • Mapping semantic space

    Open AccessVeronica Diveica, Emiko J Muraki et al.ARTICLECognition2024

    Multiple representation theories posit that concepts are represented via a combination of properties derived from sensorimotor, affective, and linguistic experiences. Recently, it has been proposed that information derived from social experience, or socialness, represents another key aspect of conceptual representation. How these various dimensions interact to form a coherent conceptual space has yet to be fully explored. To address this, we capi…

  • Affinity and allyship groups to advance inclusion in postsecondary institutions

    Emiko J Muraki, Elaine J Atay et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2024Cited by: 1

  • Meaning in hand

    Open AccessEmiko J Muraki, Stephan F Dahm et al.ARTICLECognition2023

  • Heterogenous abstract concepts

    Open AccessEmiko J Muraki, David M Sidhu et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2022

  • Heterogeneity in abstract verbs

    Open AccessEmiko J Muraki, Filomeno Cortese et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2020

    It has been well documented that different types of nouns and action verbs are associated with behavioral and neural differences. In contrast, abstract verbs (e.g., think, dissolve) are often treated as a homogeneous category. We compared event-related potentials recorded during a syntactic classification task of four verb types; 1) abstract mental, 2) abstract emotional, 3) abstract nonbodily, and 4) concrete. Abstract nonbodily state verbs show…