Single words and sentences referring to bodily actions activate the motor cortex. However,
this semantic grounding of concrete language does not address the critical question whether …

We investigated the time-course of cortical activation during comprehension of literal and
idiomatic sentences using MEG and anatomically guided distributed source analysis …

The idea that the conceptual system draws on sensory and motor systems has received
considerable experimental support in recent years. Whether the tight coupling between …

The role of sensory–motor components in language processing is a central topic in cognitive
neuroscience. Recent studies showed that the processing of action words recruits cortical …

Since the early days of research into language and the brain, word meaning was assumed
to be processed in specific brain regions, which most modern neuroscientists localize to the …

The cognitive and neural representation of abstract words is still an open question for
theories of embodied cognition. Generally, it is proposed that abstract words are grounded …

The meaning of a word usually depends on the context in which it occurs. This study
investigated the neural mechanisms involved in computing word meanings that change as a …

The role of sensory-motor systems in conceptual understanding has been controversial. It
has been proposed that many abstract concepts are understood metaphorically through …

Sensorimotor areas activate to action-and object-related words, but their role in abstract
meaning processing is still debated. Abstract emotion words denoting body internal states …

Previous research showed that modality-preferential sensorimotor areas are relevant for
processing concrete words used to speak about actions. However, whether modality …