It need not be said that the field of video game studies is now a healthy and flourishing one.
An explosion of new books, periodicals, online venues, and conferences over the past …

Sociological propositions about the workings of cognition are rarely specified or tested, but
are of central relevance to studies of culture, social judgment, and social movements. This …

This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our
concepts are represented in at least two ways:(i) through sensorimotor simulations of our …

Eighty‐two participants listened to sentences and then judged whether two sequentially
presented visual objects were the same. On critical trials, participants heard a sentence …

The idea that concepts are embodied by our motor and sensory systems is popular in
current theorizing about cognition. Embodied cognition accounts come in different versions …

In the last decade many researchers have obtained evidence for the idea that cognition
shares processing mechanisms with perception and action. Most of the evidence supporting …

Much research in cognitive linguistics suggests that many abstract concepts, such as racism,
are understood, at least partly, in embodied metaphorical terms. For example …

The concept of time is elusive to direct observation, yet it pervades almost every aspect of
our daily lives. How is time represented, given that it cannot be perceived directly …

Two themes about the conceptual system are developed:(1) modal simulations underlie
conceptual processing;(2) conceptual representations are situated. The construct of situated …

Metaphors link positive affect to brightness and negative affect to darkness. Research has
shown that such mappings are “alive” at encoding in that word-meaning evaluations are …