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

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 …

Abstract concepts can potentially be represented using metaphorical mappings to concrete
domains. This view predicts that when linguistic metaphors are processed, they will invoke …

The timing of sensory-motor activation during the comprehension of action verbs used in a
metaphorical sense is not well understood. In the present Event Related Potential (ERP) …

The theory of embodied semantics for actions specifies that the sensory-motor areas used
for producing an action are also used for the conceptual representation of the same action …

The bulk of the research on the neural organization of metaphor comprehension has
focused on nominal metaphors and the metaphoric relationships between word pairs. By …

The thesis of embodied semantics holds that conceptual representations accessed during
linguistic processing are, in part, equivalent to the sensory-motor representations required …

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 …

What does it mean for metaphors to be “embodied”? Here we describe an influential theory
of embodied cognition according to which thoughts are implemented in perceptuo-motor …

The sensory–motor account of conceptual processing suggests that modality-specific
attributes play a central role in the organization of object and action knowledge in the brain …