Most of the experiments which give theories of embodied cognition their empirical
anchorage only take into consideration the motor responses induced by the task or the …

The present experiments examined whether readers spontaneously simulate implied
auditory elements of sentences. Participants read sentences that implicitly conveyed details …

When we hear a story, do we naturally imagine the visual scene being described? Do the
representations derived in the course of normal language comprehension interact with …

Information visualization is a powerful method for understanding and working with data.
However, we still have an incomplete understanding of how people use visualization to think …

Some language theorists have suggested that the comprehension of negated statements,
such as “The theory is not fully developed,” involves different processes from non-negated …

The aim of the present study was to show the perceptual nature of conceptual knowledge by
using a priming paradigm that excluded an interpretation exclusively in terms of amodal …

Readers mentally simulate the perceptual and motoric elements related through text. Sound
is one perceptual characteristic of these embodied simulations that has received little …

Mere physical experiences of warmth, distance, hardness, and roughness are found to
activate the more abstract psychological concepts that are analogically related to them, such …

Do the gestures that accompany narrations produced after watching videos differ from those
that accompany narrations produced after reading texts? Building on previous work by …

Across cultures, speakers produce iconic gestures, which add–through the movement of the
speakers' hands–a pictorial dimension to the speakers' message. These gestures capture …