The LASS theory proposes that Language and Situated Simulation both play central roles in
conceptual processing. Depending on stimuli and task conditions, different mixtures of …

According to an embodied view of language comprehension, language concepts are
grounded in our perceptual systems. Evidence for the idea that concepts are grounded in …

Current neurobiological accounts of language and cognition offer diverging views on the
questions of 'where'and 'how'semantic information is stored and processed in the human …

Functional neuroimaging studies of healthy adults have associated different categories of
knowledge with distinct activation patterns. The basis for these recruitment patterns has …

The role of sensory-motor systems in conceptual understanding has been controversial. It
has been proposed that many abstract concepts are understood metaphorically through …

How are the meanings of concepts represented and processed? We present a cognitive
model of conceptual representations and processing—the Conceptual Structure Account …

In some contexts, concrete words (CARROT) are recognized and remembered more readily
than abstract words (TRUTH). This concreteness effect has historically been explained by …

The processing of single words that varied in their semantic (concrete/abstract word) and
syntactic (content/function word) status was investigated under different task demands …

How are the meanings of words, events, and objects represented and organized in the
brain? This question, perhaps more than any other in the field, probes some of the deepest …

Concepts develop for many aspects of experience, including abstract internal states and
abstract social activities that do not refer to concrete entities in the world. The current study …