Faculty & Labs

Faculty
- Benjamin Bergen
- Lera Boroditsky
- Andrea Chiba
- Seana Coulson
- Sarah Creel
- Virginia de Sa
- Gedeon Deák
- Jeff Elman
- Jim Hollan
- Edwin Hutchins
- Terry L Jernigan
- David Kirsh
- Scott Klemmer
- Marta Kutas
- Douglas A Nitz
- Rafael Núñez
- Jaime Pineda
- Ayse P. Saygin
- Angela J. Yu

Adjunct Faculty
- Anders Dale
- Terrence J Sejnowski
- Emanuel Todorov
- Jeanne Townsend
- Erik Viirre

Faculty Emeritus
- Richard Belew
- Aaron Cicourel
- Gilles Fauconnier
- Jean Mandler
- Don Norman
- Joan Stiles
- David Zipser

Lecturers
- Steven Barrera
- Mary Boyle
- Anjum K Gupta
- Christine Johnson

Research Labs
- Brain & Cognition Lab
- Center for Research in Language
- Cognitive Development Laboratory
- Cognitive Electrophysiology Lab
- Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Lab
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
- Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
- Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab
- Embodied Cognition Lab
- Interactive Cognition Lab
- Language & Cognition Lab
- Language Acquisition and Sound Recognition Lab
- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory
- Systems Neuroscience Lab

Affiliated Labs
- Center for Brain and Cognition
- Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Center for Human Development
- Gary's Unbelievable Research Unit
- Institute for Neural Computation
- Institute for Nonlinear Science
- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
- Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
- Machine Perception Lab
- Salk Institute Neuroscience Labs
- San Diego Supercomputer Center

Benjamin Bergen

Associate Professor

Homepage: http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen
Email: bkbergen@ucsd.edu

Office: CSB 133

Research Interests

Mental simulation in language understanding; embodiment of linguistic constructions; processing of literal, abstract, and metaphorical language; language acquisition.

Selected Publications

Bergen, B., Wheeler, K. (2010). Grammatical aspect and mental simulation. Brain and Language, 112(3), 150-158.

Bergen, B., Polley, C., Wheeler, K. (2010). "Language and inner space". In Vyvyan Evans and Paul Chilton (Eds.) Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions (2 vols). London: Equinox.

Wheeler, K., Bergen, B. (2010). Meaning in the palm of your hand. In Sally Rice and John Newman (eds.) Empirical and Experimental Methods in Conceptual structure, Discourse, and Language. Stanford: CSLI.