Grounded cognition assumes that language and concepts are understood using simulations
in different modalities. Evidence for this assumption mainly stems from studies using …

Metaphor is an important cognitive way for human to understand the world. It's the main way
for human to understand abstract concepts and abstract thinking. Body experience is the …

The study examines metaphor selection for the same abstract concept when multiple
concrete dimensions are available for use. Drawing on the power concept, four studies …

Previous studies have shown that powerful and powerless concepts are metaphorically
associated with top and bottom spaces respectively. However, this association might be …

How human beings represent abstractions is an important issue in cognitive psychology.
The embodied cognition model proposes that cognition is based on body; individuals' …

This experimental study explored the use of the implicit relational assessment procedure
(IRAP) for understanding the vertical spatial metaphor of power. In the classic IRAP …

Fifty years of research in cognitive science have demonstrated that the study of cognition is
essential for a scientific understanding of human behavior. A growing number of researchers …

The field of grounded cognition is concerned with how concepts gain meaning by being
represented in experiences. A large body of empirical work supports this core tenet, but the …

Roughly speaking, an abstract concept refers to entities that are neither purely physical nor
spatially constrained. Such concepts pose a classic problem for theories that ground …

In the last decade many researchers have obtained evidence for the idea that cognition
shares processing mechanisms with perception and action. Most of the evidence supporting …