Meaning-making in the brain has become one of the most intensely discussed topics in
cognitive science. Traditional theories on cognition that emphasize abstract symbol …

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 …

A fundamental question of cognitive neuroscience concerns the role of sensory and motor
information in representing the conceptual knowledge in the brain. Indeed, the extent to …

The embodied view of language comprehension proposes that the meaning of words is
grounded in perception and action rather than represented in abstract amodal symbols …

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 …

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 …

Research from the past decade has shown that understanding the meaning of words and
utterances (ie, abstracted symbols) engages the same systems we used to perceive and …

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 …

The idea that concepts are represented as mental images that revoke sensory experiences
is intuitive and has a long history in philosophy. The empirical question regarding the …

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 …