Many studies have demonstrated that the sensory and motor systems are activated during
conceptual processing. Such results have been interpreted as indicating that concepts, and …

The discovery of mirror neurons in macaque frontal cortex has sparked a resurgence of
interest in motor/embodied theories of cognition. This critical review examines the evidence …

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

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 ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity-our'self'-is a characteristic
doubtless unique to humans. Where does this feeling come from? How does the …

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole
or in part, in a modality-specific format–the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the …

Embodiment theory proposes that neural systems for perception and action are also
engaged during language comprehension. Previous neuroimaging and neurophysiological …

One of the most provocative and exciting issues in cognitive science is how neural specificity
for semantic categories of common objects arises in the functional architecture of the brain …

A recently emerging view sees language understanding as closely linked to sensory and
motor processes. The present study investigates this issue by examining the influence of …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …