The canonical history of mathematics suggests that the late 19th‐century “arithmetization” of
calculus marked a shift away from spatial‐dynamic intuitions, grounding concepts in static …

This article proposes that the representation of concepts in infancy is in the form of spatial
image-schemas. A mechanism that simplifies spatial information is described along with a …

To know the meaning of a sentence is to know its truth-conditions. If I say to you [“There is a
bag of potatoes in my pantry”] you may not know whether what I said is true. What you do …

We discuss the hypothesis that acquisition of knowledge is a deeply rooted psychological
need. But so is the desire for fast decisions and for minimizing cognitive efforts. There is a …

Our ability to speak, write, understand speech, and read is critical to our ability to function in
today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use …

T HIS chapter deals with how word meaning is represented by speakers of a language,
reviewing psychological perspectives on the representation of meaning. We start by …

We tested an embodied account of language proposing that comprehenders create
perceptual simulations of the events they hear and read about. In Experiment 1, children …

Recent research has suggested that reading involves the mental simulation of events and
actions described in a text. It is possible however that previous findings did not tap into …

How do people think about things they can never see or touch? Te ability to invent and
reason about domains such as time, ideas, or mathematics is uniquely human, and is …

Since the proposal of conceptual metaphors as the representational means for grounding
abstract concepts in concrete sensorio-motor experiences, experimental research about this …