Previous reports have demonstrated that the comprehension of sentences describing motion
in a particular direction (toward, away, up, or down) is affected by concurrently viewing a …

How would you describe the way you think about your life? When asked this question, many
people immediately embrace some convenient metaphor to characterize their self …

This study investigated neural activation patterns during verb processing in children, using
fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Preschool children (aged 4–6) passively …

A number of recent studies have demonstrated variants of the action–sentence compatibility
effect (ACE), wherein the execution of a motor response is facilitated by the comprehension …

The purpose of this article is to propose a view of language processing, and particularly the
role of aspect therein, from a mental‐simulation perspective. I argue that situation model …

The aim of this study was to provide evidence that memory and perceptual processing are
underpinned by the same mechanisms. Specifically, the authors conducted 3 experiments …

Embodied theories of language propose that word meaning is inextricably tied to—
grounded in—mental representations of perceptual, motor, and affective experiences of the …

Two visual-world experiments evaluated the time course and use of orthographic
information in spoken-word recognition using printed words as referents. Participants saw 4 …

According to the spatial registration hypothesis, the representation of stimulus location is
automatically encoded during perception and it can interact with a more abstract linguistic …

People readily generalize knowledge to novel domains and stimuli. We present a theory,
instantiated in a computational model, based on the idea that cross-domain generalization …