A consolidated approach to the study of the mental representation of word meanings has
consisted in contrasting different domains of knowledge, broadly reflecting the abstract …

Two views on the semantics of concrete words are that their core mental representations are
feature-based or are reconstructions of sensory experience. We argue that neither of these …

The embodied cognition approach to the study of the mind proposes that higher order
mental processes such as concept formation and language are essentially based on …

Conceptual knowledge plays a pivotal role in human cognition. Grounded cognition theories
propose that concepts consist of perceptual-motor features represented in modality-specific …

Biological plausibility is an essential constraint for any viable model of semantic memory.
Yet, we have only the most rudimentary understanding of how the human brain conducts …

There is much empirical evidence that words' relative imageability and body-object
interaction (BOI) facilitate lexical processing for concrete nouns (eg, Bennett et al.,). These …

The neural representation of concepts is a focus of many cognitive neuroscience studies.
Prior works studying concept representation with neural imaging data have been largely …

In this work we explore whether the patterns of brain activity associated with thinking about
concrete objects are dependent on stimulus presentation format, whether an object is …

The human brain is thought to elicit an object representation via co-activation of neural
regions that encode various object features. The cortical regions and mechanisms involved …

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 …