From the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol
manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field …

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 …

Twenty years after Barsalou's seminal perceptual-symbols article, embodied cognition, the
notion that cognition involves simulations of sensory, motor, or affective states, has moved …

Many current programs for cognitive science sail under the banner of “embodied cognition.”
These programs typically seek to distance themselves from standard cognitive science. The …

Recent years have seen a large amount of empirical studies related to “embodied
cognition.” While interesting and valuable, there is something dissatisfying with the current …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole
or in part, in a modality-specific format–the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the …

Cognitive scientists have a variety of approaches to studying cognition: experimental
psychology, computer science, robotics, neuroscience, educational psychology, philosophy …

The idea that concepts are embodied by our motor and sensory systems is popular in
current theorizing about cognition. Embodied cognition accounts come in different versions …

Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing
that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and …