A great deal of research has focused on the question of whether or not concepts are
embodied as a rule. Supporters of embodiment have pointed to studies that implicate …

The 15 articles in this special issue on The Representation of Concepts illustrate the rich
variety of theoretical positions and supporting research that characterize the area. Although …

The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary
debates in cognitive (neuro) science. In this paper we illustrate and compare two theories …

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Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

La thèse de la cognition incarnée s' est développée en tant que thèse différente de celle
voulant que la cognition soit l'objet d'une médiation, tout au moins, par des représentations …

Abstract words have usually been treated as a homogenous group, with limited investigation
of the influence of different underlying representational systems for these words. In the …

To explain how abstract concepts are grounded in sensory‐motor experiences, several
theories have been proposed. I will discuss two of these proposals, Conceptual Metaphor …

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole
or in part, in a modality-specific format–the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the …

The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded
theories need to face, ie, that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired …