Articles
Journal Articles
Wadley, Phillip, Thora Tenbrink, and Alan Wallington. 2024. Moving Figures and Grounds in music description. Cognitive Linguistics 35:1, 109-141.
Amphaeris, Jenny, Daniel T. Blumstein, Graeme Shannon, Thora Tenbrink, and Arik Kershenbaum. 2023. A multifaceted approach to establish the presence of meaning in non-human communication. Biological Reviews 98:6, 1887-1909.
Auge, Anais, Tenbrink, Thora, Spear, Morwenna, and Abrams, Nathan. 2023. British and Irish newspapers implicitly support single-use masks over reusable face coverings. Frontiers in Communication: Section Science and Environmental Communication. Volume 8, 2023.
Tenbrink, Thora and Willcock, Simon. 2023. Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas. PLOS ONE 18(9): e0290354. Press release
Amphaeris, Jenny, Graeme Shannon, and Thora Tenbrink. 2022. Overlap not Gap: Understanding the Relationship between Animal Communication and Language with Prototype Theory. Lingua 272:103332.
Foltz, Anouschka, Beatriz Martín-Gascón, Florencia Paz Silva Marytsch, Javier Olloqui-Redondo, and Thora Tenbrink. 2022. Syntax and object types contribute in different ways to bilinguals’ comprehension of spatial descriptions. Language and Cognition 14:4, 645-671.
Lamb, David, and Tenbrink, Thora. 2022. Evaluating Jesus and other “heroes”: An application of appraisal analysis to Hellenistic Greek texts in the “Lives” genre. Language, Context and Text 4:2, 227-258. Kudos abstract
Stock, Kristin, Jones, Christopher B., and Tenbrink, Thora. 2022. Speaking of Location: A Review of Spatial Language Research. Introduction to the Special Issue on Speaking of Location, Spatial Cognition and Computation 22:3–4, 185-224.
Tenbrink, Thora. 2022. Linguistic spatial reference systems across everyday domains: How people talk about space in sailing, dancing, and other specialist areas. Linguistics Vanguard 8 (s1: Special Issue on Sociotopography), 151-159.
Tenbrink, Thora and Williams, Anwen Jago. 2022. Linguistic expression of place appreciation in English and Welsh: A case study in North Wales. JOSIS Journal of Spatial Information Science 24:85-112.
Tenbrink, Thora and Lawrence, Kate. 2021. Omnibus: A cross-modal experience between translation and adaptation. JoSTrans Journal of Specialised Translation Issue 35: 186-208.
Al-Gamde, Amaal and Tenbrink, Thora. 2020. Media Bias: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution. Open Linguistics 6:1, 584–600.
Almehmadi, Wesam, Tenbrink, Thora, and Sanoudaki, Eirini. 2020. Pragmatic and conversational features of Arabic-speaking adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Examining performance and caregivers’ perceptions. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 63:7, 2308-2321.
Tenbrink, Thora. 2020. Review of Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr, and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.) 2019: Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world. (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 330 pp. ISBN: 978-90-272-0472-1 (HB), 978-90-272-6175-5 (E-Book). LaMiCuS (Language, Mind, Culture, Society) 4, 236-243.
Tenbrink, Thora. 2020. What spatial environments mean. Invited vision paper for JOSIS Journal of Spatial Information Science 20:57-63.
Tenbrink, Thora, Taylor, Holly A., Brunye, Tad T., Gagnon, Stephanie A., Gardony, Aaron L. 2020. Cognitive focus affects spatial decisions under conditions of uncertainty. Cognitive Processing 21:287-302.
Olloqui Redondo, Javier, Tenbrink, Thora, and Foltz, Anouschka. 2019. Effects of animacy and linguistic construction on the interpretation of spatial descriptions in English and Spanish. Language and Cognition 11:2, 256-284.
Cialone, Claudia, Tenbrink, Thora, and Spiers, Hugo J. 2018. Sculptors, architects, and painters conceive of depicted spaces differently. Cognitive Science 42, 524–553. Video abstract Press release
Coventry, Kenny R., Elena Andonova, Thora Tenbrink, Harmen Gudde, and Paul E. Engelhardt. 2018. Cued by what we see and hear: Spatial reference frame use in language. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognitive Science, 9:1287.
Egorova, Ekaterina, Tenbrink, Thora, and Purves, Ross. 2018. Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering. Spatial Cognition and Computation 18:4, 259-284.
Galati, Alexia, Panagiotou, Elisavet, Tenbrink, Thora, and Avraamides, Marios. 2018. Dynamic strategy selection in collaborative spatial tasks. Discourse Processes 55:8, 643-665.
Tenbrink, Thora, Andonova, Elena, Schole, Gesa, and Coventry, Kenny R. 2017. Communicative success in spatial dialogue: The impact of functional features and dialogic strategies. Language and Speech 60:2, 318–329. Data source available on Reshare
Tenbrink, Thora and Dylla, Frank. 2017. Sailing: Cognition, action, communication. Journal of Spatial Information Science 15:3-33.
Tenbrink, Thora. 2017. Situated interaction with a smart environment: Challenges and opportunities. KI - Kuenstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence) 31(3), 257-264.
Tenbrink, Thora, Bergmann, Evelyn, Hertzberg, Christoph, and Gondorf, Carsten. 2016. Time will not help unskilled observers to understand a cluttered spatial scene. Spatial Cognition and Computation 16:3, 192-219.
Tenbrink, Thora and Salwiczek, Lucie. 2016. Orientation and metacognition in virtual space. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 42(5), 683-705. (Bangor Repository)
Brunye, T. T., Gagnon, S. A., Gardony, A. L., Gopal, N., Holmes, A., Taylor, H. A., & Tenbrink, T. 2015. Where did it come from, where do you go? Direction sources influence navigation decisions during spatial uncertainty. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 68(3):585-607. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.963131. (Bangor Repository)
Tenbrink, Thora. 2015. Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data. Language and Cognition 7:1, 98 – 137. (Bangor Repository)
Tenbrink, Thora and Maas, Annika. 2015. Efficiently connecting textual and visual information in operating instructions. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 58:4, 346-366. (Bangor Repository)
Tenbrink, Thora and Holly A. Taylor. 2015. Conceptual transformation and cognitive processes in Origami paper folding. Journal of Problem Solving 8:1. (Bangor Repository)
Thomas, Ayanna, Chen, Caroline, Gordon, Leamarie, and Tenbrink, Thora. 2015. Choose Your Words Wisely: What Verbal Hesitation Indicates About Eyewitness Accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology 29:5, 735–741. (Bangor Repository)
Tenbrink, Thora, Kathleen Eberhard, Hui Shi, Sandra Kuebler, and Matthias Scheutz. 2013. Annotation of negotiation processes in joint-action dialogues. Dialogue and Discourse 4:2. (Bangor Repository)
Taylor, Holly and Thora Tenbrink. 2013. The spatial thinking of Origami: Evidence from think-aloud protocols. Cognitive Processing 14:189-191. (Bangor Repository)
Juhasz, Orsolya Emoke, Thora Tenbrink, and Barbara Grueter. 2012. Visual versus verbal location information on the iPhone. Kuenstliche Intelligenz 26:2, 183-186. (Bangor Repository)
Hoelscher, Christoph, Thora Tenbrink, and Jan Wiener. 2011. Would you follow your own route description? Cognition 121: 228-247.
Tenbrink, Thora. 2011. Reference frames of space and time in language. Journal of Pragmatics 43:3, 704-722. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.06.020
Tenbrink, Thora, Elena Andonova, and Kenny R. Coventry. 2011. Spatial strategies in the description of complex configurations. Discourse Processes 48:237-266.
Tenbrink, Thora and Inessa Seifert. 2011. Conceptual Layers and Strategies in Tour Planning. Cognitive Processing 12:109-125.
Andonova, Elena, Thora Tenbrink, and Kenny R. Coventry. 2010. Function and Context Affect Spatial Information Packaging at Multiple Levels. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 17, 575-580.
Bateman, John, Joana Hois, Robert Ross, and Thora Tenbrink. 2010. A Linguistic Ontology of Space for Natural Language Processing. Artificial Intelligence 174: 1027-1071.
Freksa, Christian, Holger Schultheis, Kerstin Schill, Thora Tenbrink, Thomas Barkowsky, Christoph Hoelscher, and Bernhard Nebel. 2010. Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction. Kuenstliche Intelligenz 24, 329-334.
Tenbrink, Thora, Robert J. Ross, Kavita E. Thomas, Nina Dethlefs, and Elena Andonova. 2010. Route instructions in map-based human-human and human-computer dialogue: a comparative analysis. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 21:5, 292-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2010.07.001
Tenbrink, Thora and Jan Wiener. 2009. The verbalization of multiple strategies in a variant of the traveling salesperson problem. Cognitive Processing 10:2, 143-161.
Tenbrink, Thora and Stephan Winter. 2009. Variable Granularity in Route Directions. Spatial Cognition and Computation 9, 64-93.
Wiener, Jan and Thora Tenbrink. 2008. Traveling salesman problem: The human case. KI 1/08 Themenheft KI und Kognition, arenDTaP Verlag, pp. 18-22.
Bateman, John, Thora Tenbrink, and Scott Farrar. 2007. The Role of Conceptual and Linguistic Ontologies in Discourse. Dialogue Modelling: Computational and Empirical Approaches. Special Issue of Discourse Processes, 44(3), 175-213.
Moratz, Reinhard and Thora Tenbrink. 2006. Spatial reference in linguistic human-robot interaction: Iterative, empirically supported development of a model of projective relations. Spatial Cognition and Computation 6:1,63-106.
Tenbrink, Thora, Kerstin Fischer, and Reinhard Moratz. 2002. Spatial Strategies in Human-Robot Communication. Kuenstliche Intelligenz 4/02 Themenheft Spatial Cognition, ISSN 0933-1875, arendtap Verlag, Bremen (Germany).
Moratz, Reinhard, Kerstin Fischer, and Thora Tenbrink. 2001. Cognitive Modelling of Spatial Reference for Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal On Artificial Intelligence Tools, 10:4.