The debate on whether language comprehension involves the manipulation of abstract
symbols or is grounded in perception and action has reached an impasse, with authors from …

Over the last decades a divide seems to have emerged in the cognitive sciences between
embodied and symbolic approaches to language understanding. Embodied approaches …

Over the last decade, the debate regarding embodied versus symbolic representations in
language comprehension has dominated areas within the cognitive sciences (Barsalou …

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

Traditionally, the language faculty was supposed to be a device that maps linguistic inputs to
semantic or conceptual representations. These representations themselves were supposed …

What role does people's embodied experiences have in their use and understanding of
meaning? Most theories in cognitive science view meaning in terms of propositional …

Twenty years after Barsalou's seminal perceptual-symbols article, embodied cognition, the
notion that cognition involves simulations of sensory, motor, or affective states, has moved …

Debates on meaning and cognition suggest that an embodied cognition account is exclusive
of a symbolic cognition account. Decades of research in the cognitive sciences have …

Background knowledge is essential for understanding. Our question concerns the nature of
that knowledge: Is background knowledge solely descriptive and abstract, that is, consisting …

There are two views of cognition in general and of language comprehension in particular.
According to the traditional view (Chomsky, 1957; Fodor, 1983; Pylyshyn, 1986), the human …