Many common words have spatial associations (eg,“bird,”“jump”) that, counterintuitively,
hinder identification of visual targets at their associated location. For example,“bird” hinders …

The “emotional turn” has promoted an increasing number of empirical studies on the traces
of emotion in language and theoretical approaches to language, cognition and emotion …

It has been suggested that the activation of speech–motor areas during speech
comprehension may, in part, reflect the involvement of the speech production system in …

Theories of embodied cognition (EC) propose that object concepts are represented by
reactivations of sensorimotor experiences of different objects. Abundant research from …

In healthy subjects (HS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied during
'linguistic'tasks discloses excitability changes in the dominant hemisphere primary motor …

Over the last decade, embodied cognition, the idea that sensorimotor processes facilitate
higher cognitive processes, has proven useful for improving children's memory for a story. In …

The idea that cognition might not be based on the manipulation of amodal, arbitrary, and
abstract symbols, but rather involves activating and combining sensorimotor experiences …

Abstract We investigated automatic Spatial–Numerical Association of Response Codes
(SNARC) effect in auditory number processing. Two experiments continually measured …

In keeping with the idea that observing objects activates possible motor responses, several
experiments revealed compatibility effects between the hand postures used to report a …

This chapter consists of three main parts: in the first part we report very briefly the results of
empirical studies supporting an embodied view of language processing including emotional …