This article describes what the earliest concepts are like and presents a theory of the spatial
primitives from which they are formed. The earliest concepts tend to be global, like animal …

Embodied approaches to comprehension propose that understanding language entails
performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action …

According to theories of embodied cognition, language comprehenders simulate
sensorimotor experiences to represent the meaning of what they read. Previous studies …

Through a review of the literature, this paper proposes arguments in favour of a multimodal,
dynamic, functional, and situational conception of memory. Memory is assumed to contain …

We propose that spatial imagery is systematically linked to stereotypic beliefs, such that
more agentic groups are envisaged to the left of less agentic groups. This spatial agency …

Viewpoint is a delightfully messy area, as the introduction to this volume makes clear. While
the majority of the chapters in this volume center on analyses of specific viewpoint …

This dissertation investigates the interaction of metaphoric and metonymic modes in
language and co-speech gesture. The corpus for this study consists of academic discourse …

Recent findings in psychology, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience present a challenge to
current amodal theories by suggesting that cognitive states are not disembodied in …

Do people spontaneously form visual mental images when understanding language, and if
so, how truly visual are these representations? We test whether processing linguistic …

To explain how abstract concepts are grounded in sensory‐motor experiences, several
theories have been proposed. I will discuss two of these proposals, Conceptual Metaphor …