Embodied cognition accounts posit that concepts are grounded in our sensory and motor
systems. An important challenge for these accounts is explaining how abstract concepts …

Readers mentally simulate the objects and events described in narratives. One common
assumption is that readers mentally embody an actor's perspective; alternatively, readers …

A great deal of research has focused on the question of whether or not concepts are
embodied as a rule. Supporters of embodiment have pointed to studies that implicate …

Flexibility in conceptual projection constitutes one of the most challenging issues in the
embodiment and conceptual metaphor literatures. We sketch a theoretical proposal that …

Recent evidence from cognitive neuroscience suggests that certain cognitive processes
employ perceptual representations. Inspired by this evidence, a few researchers have …

We demonstrate in two experiments that real and imagined body movements appropriate to
metaphorical phrases facilitate people's immediate comprehension of these phrases …

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 …

In this volume Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers
draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and …

Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing
that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and …

There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental
imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; …