Despite all methodological efforts made in the last three decades, Western instruction
grounds on traditional principles. Most educational programs follow theories that are …

Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present
as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence …

This review paper summarizes the various brain modules that are involved in speech and
language communication in addition to a left-dominant “core” language network that, for the …

Previous research showed that modality-preferential sensorimotor areas are relevant for
processing concrete words used to speak about actions. However, whether modality …

How abstract is language? We show that abstractness pervades every corner of language,
going far beyond the usual examples of freedom and justice. In the light of the ubiquity of …

Theories of emotion have often maintained artificial boundaries: for instance, that cognition
and emotion are separable, and that an emotion concept is separable from the emotional …

How is knowledge about word meaning represented in the mental lexicon? Current
computational models infer word meanings from lexical co-occurrence patterns. They learn …

Modelling the structure of cognitive systems is a central goal of the cognitive sciences—a
goal that has greatly benefitted from the application of network science approaches. This …

Both temporal and frontoparietal brain areas are associated with the representation of
knowledge about the world, in particular about actions. However, what these brain regions …