Abstract domains of knowledge may have social origins. However, whether abstract concepts (ACs) may also differentially affect communicative interaction and conversation …
Embodied cognition theories predict a functional involvement of sensorimotor processes in language understanding. In a preregistered experiment, we tested this idea by investigating …
Abstraction processes involve two variables that are often confused with one another: concreteness (banana versus belief) and specificity (chair versus furniture or Buddhism …
When humans speak or animals vocalize, they can produce sounds that are further combined into larger sequences. The flexibility of sound combinations into larger meaningful …
The field of grounded cognition is concerned with how concepts gain meaning by being represented in experiences. A large body of empirical work supports this core tenet, but the …
The relationship between language and cognition has been widely explored in cognitive linguistics. However, abstract concepts are challenging due to their lack of referents …
This thesis explores metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication, and their connection to the cognitive processes that are involved in language comprehension and …
Tulving (1972) characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that provides a substrate for language and many other cognitive processes. Tulving's perspective resulted …
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Conclusion: To accommodate this diversity, the GCM must assume that modal brain systems for perception and action are significantly shaped by the idiosyncratic semantic details of …