Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access

C Bonnet, M Bayram, S El Bouzaïdi Tiali, F Lebon… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of Motor Imagery (MI) training on
language comprehension. In line with literature suggesting an intimate relationship between …

The organization of semantic associations between senses in language

JA Alvarado, C Velasco, A Salgado - Language and Cognition, 2023 - cambridge.org
Distributional semantic representations were used to investigate crossmodal
correspondences within language, offering a comprehensive analysis of how sensory …

Openness, reflective engagement, and self-altering literary reading

D Kuiken, P Sopčák - Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies, 2021 - degruyter.com
Studies that assess modes of reading engagement indicate that open reflection within a
distinctively expressive mode of reading engagement triggers not only embodied, enactive …

Up right, not right up: primacy of verticality in both language and movement

V Boulenger, L Finos, E Koun, R Salemme… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
When describing motion along both the horizontal and vertical axes, languages from
different families express the elements encoding verticality before those coding for …

The Influence of Emotional Experience on Semantic Processing of Concrete Concepts

X Bai, J Feng, Y Liu, Y Gao, J Deng… - Psychology Research and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Parallel distributed processing theory (PDP theory) holds that all brain regions
involved in conceptual representation perform a series of activities at the same time …

Verbal labels facilitate tactile texture discrimination in a perceptual learning task

I Arun, L Lazar - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The influence of language on perceptual processes, referred to as the Whorfian hypothesis,
has been a contentious issue. Cross-linguistic research and lab-based experiments have …

Common functional resources for tool use and language: new horizons towards a reciprocal impact

S Thibault - 2021 - theses.hal.science
Tool use is a hallmark of human evolution. Beyond its sensorimotor components, whose
complexity has been extensively investigated, tool use impacts cognition. Tool use requires …