Abstract Concepts are composed of features related to different sensory and motor
modalities such as vision, sound, and action. It is a matter of controversy whether conceptual …

Semantic knowledge is based on the way we perceive and interact with the world. However,
the jury is still out on the question: to what degree are neuronal systems that subserve …

Conceptual knowledge reflects our multi-modal 'semantic database'. As such, it brings
meaning to all verbal and non-verbal stimuli, is the foundation for verbal and non-verbal …

In the last 10–15 years, the embodied and grounded (E and G) cognition approach has
become widespread in all fields related to cognitive (neuro) science, and a lot of evidence …

The neural correlates of conceptual knowledge for actions are not well understood. To begin
to address this knowledge gap, we tested the hypothesis that the retrieval of conceptual …

Recent theories of cognition have argued that embodied experience is important for
conceptual processing. Embodiment can be contrasted with linguistic factors such as the …

Recent evidence from cognitive neuroscience suggests that certain cognitive processes
employ perceptual representations. Inspired by this evidence, a few researchers have …

Concepts are the elementary units of reason and linguistic meaning. They are conventional
and relatively stable. As such, they must somehow be the result of neural activity in the brain …

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This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our
concepts are represented in at least two ways:(i) through sensorimotor simulations of our …