Contextualized through the lens of field-wide theoretical debates of representation and
embodiment which dictate assumptions about the nature of cognition, this dissertation …

Cet article ouvre la porte à un débat, mené dans deux articles subséquents du présent
numéro par Glenberg et Mahon, traitant du rôle des représentations conceptuelles …

Traditional theories viewed memory as the “great storehouse of information.” Since the late
1960s, researchers have begun thinking of information as stored in the form of semantic …

A key question about the function of emoji is whether or not they are emotional. This is not
yet fully established, and the literature presents mixed evidence. We used the Emoji Spatial …

Motor imagery is influenced by individual and contextual factors. We investigated whether
the psychophysiological trait of hypnotisability modulates its subjective experience and …

Grounded cognition theories assume that conceptual processing depends on modality-
specific brain systems in a context-dependent fashion. Although the relation of abstract …

Distributed brain systems contribute to representation of semantic knowledge. Whether
sensory and motor systems of the brain are causally involved in representing conceptual …

Grounded theories of cognition claim that concept representation relies on the systems for
perception and action. The sensory-motor grounding of abstract concepts presents a …

Theories of embodied cognition assume that concepts are grounded in non‐linguistic,
sensorimotor experience. In support of this assumption, previous studies have shown that …

Though much progress has been made to understand feature integration, debate remains
regarding how objects are represented in mind based on their constituent features. Here, we …