The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

Accounting for how the human mind represents the internal and external world is a crucial
feature of many theories of human cognition. Central to this question is the distinction …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

How are abstract concepts such as 'freedom'and 'democracy'represented in the mind? One
prominent proposal suggests that abstract concepts are grounded in emotion. Supporting …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

What role does language play in our thoughts? A longstanding proposal that has gained
traction among supporters of embodied or grounded cognition suggests that it serves as a …

Theories of grounded cognition postulate that concepts are grounded in sensorimotor
experience. But how can that be for concepts like Atlantis for which we do not have that …

The debate about the nature of the representational format of concepts seems to have
reached an impasse. The debate faces two fundamental problems. Firstly, amodalists (ie …

Our ability to deal with abstract concepts is one of the most intriguing faculties of human
cognition. Still, we know little about how such concepts are formed, processed, and …