Findings in the social psychology literatures on attitudes, social perception, and emotion
demonstrate that social information processing involves embodiment, where embodiment …

Spontaneous gestures that accompany speech are related to both verbal and spatial
processes. We argue that gestures emerge from perceptual and motor simulations that …

Dynamic systems is a recent theoretical approach to the study of development. In its
contemporary formulation, the theory grows directly from advances in understanding …

Educators and policy makers have increasingly recognized the importance of computational
thinking (CT). Despite the growing body of CT literature, how to cultivate CT is still …

Roughly speaking, an abstract concept refers to entities that are neither purely physical nor
spatially constrained. Such concepts pose a classic problem for theories that ground …

Metaphorically, power equals up. Drawing on embodied theories of cognition, the author
argues that thinking about power involves mental simulation of space and can be interfered …

Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding
motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 …

Cognitive theories of metaphor understanding are typically described in terms of the
mappings between different kinds of abstract, schematic, disembodied knowledge. My claim …

Embodiment theory proposes that neural systems for perception and action are also
engaged during language comprehension. Previous neuroimaging and neurophysiological …

Adding gesture to spoken instructions makes those instructions more effective. The question
we ask here is why. A group of 49 third and fourth grade children were given instruction in …