Can linguistic semantics affect neural processing in feature-specific visual regions?
Specifically, when we hear a sentence describing a situation that includes motion, do we …

Background Behavioral studies have provided evidence for an action–sentence
compatibility effect (ACE) that suggests a coupling of motor mechanisms and action …

Embodied theories of cognition hold that mentally representing something red engages the
neural subsystems that respond to environmental perception of that colour. This paper …

In this review, we synthesize the existing literature demonstrating the dynamic interplay
between conceptual knowledge and visual perceptual processing. We consider two …

Space for Thinking Page 1 Space for Thinking Daniel Casasanto Department of Psychology
Stanford University To appear in: Language, Cognition and Space: the state of the art and new …

Over the last decades a divide seems to have emerged in the cognitive sciences between
embodied and symbolic approaches to language understanding. Embodied approaches …

Using data from five studies (ie, a pilot study and four experiments), we examine the
interactive effects of pictures and psychological proximity on consumers' evaluation of …

How do people understand language? Though vital to the study of language and the mind, a
disproportionately small body of empirical work has historically addressed this question …

How do abstract philosophies turn into lived reality? Based on 2 years of ethnographic
observations and in-depth interviews of vipassana meditation practitioners in Israel and the …

We explore whether time shifts in text comprehension are represented spatially. Participants
read sentences involving past or future events and made sensibility judgment responses in …