Grounded cognition approaches to conceptual representations postulate a close link
between conceptual knowledge and the sensorimotor brain systems. The present fMRI study …

This review article presents our perspective on psychological and physiological
mechanisms underlying concepts from the domain of affect, emotion, and motivation. We …

Body-object interaction (BOI) is a semantic richness variable that measures the perceived
ease with which the human body can physically interact with a word's referent. Lexical and …

It is well established that the comprehension of spoken words referring to object concepts
relies on high-level visual areas in the ventral stream that build increasingly abstract …

To understand how and when object knowledge influences the neural underpinnings of
language comprehension and linguistic behavior, it is critical to determine the specific kinds …

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

Modality-specific models of conceptual memory propose close links between concepts and
the sensory-motor systems. Neuroimaging studies found, in different subject groups, that …

The neurodevelopmental consequences of deafness on the functional neuroarchitecture of
the conceptual system have not been intensively investigated so far. Using functional …

The processing of threat‐related emotional body language (EBL) has been shown to
engage sensorimotor cortical areas early on and induce freezing in the observers' motor …

The procedure by which information about conceptual category of visual objects is encoded
in brain signals, is the topic of many studies in the field of visual system. A phenomenon that …