Empirical research has shown that the processing of words and sentences is accompanied
by activation of the brain's motor system in language users. The degree of precision …

Listeners are able to glean information from the gestures that speakers produce, seemingly
without conscious awareness. However, little is known about the mechanisms that underlie …

Eighty‐two participants listened to sentences and then judged whether two sequentially
presented visual objects were the same. On critical trials, participants heard a sentence …

Research from the past decade has shown that understanding the meaning of words and
utterances (ie, abstracted symbols) engages the same systems we used to perceive and …

Recent theories propose that semantic representation and sensorimotor processing have a
common substrate via simulation. We tested the prediction that comprehension interacts with …

Previous reports have demonstrated that the comprehension of sentences describing motion
in a particular direction (toward, away, up, or down) is affected by concurrently viewing a …

In a recent study Boulenger et al.(2006) found that processing action verbs assisted
reaching movement when the word was processed prior to movement onset and interfered …

Embodied theories of language processing suggest that this motor simulation is an
automatic and necessary component of meaning representation. If this is the case, then …

This study investigated the motor strategy involved in mental rotation tasks by examining 2
types of spontaneous gestures (hand-object interaction gestures, representing the agentive …

When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language
understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those …