Gestures are common when people convey spatial information, for example, when they give
directions or describe motion in space. Here, we examine the gestures speakers produce …

The sensory–motor account of conceptual processing suggests that modality-specific
attributes play a central role in the organization of object and action knowledge in the brain …

Two experiments investigate the effects of language comprehension on affordances.
Participants read a sentence composed by either an observation or an action verb (Look …

Abstract The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of
the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are asked to make …

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that participants who are expressing a
thought that is encoded spatially will use more lexical movements than participants who are …

We explore whether time shifts in text comprehension are represented spatially. Participants
read sentences involving past or future events and made sensibility judgment responses in …

Lorsque les gens lisent, leurs pensées s' éloignent parfois de la tâche en cours: ils «errent
dans leur conscience». Les recherches récentes suggèrent que ce détournement de focus …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and a behavioral paradigm were used to assess
whether listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system. By …

Embodied approaches to comprehension propose that understanding language entails
performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action …

The last decades have seen a growing interest in the impact of action on perception and
other concurrent cognitive processes. One particularly interesting example is that manual …