Semantic memory includes all acquired knowledge about the world and is the basis for
nearly all human activity, yet its neurobiological foundation is only now becoming clear …

At first glance, conceptual representations (eg, our internal notion of the object “lemon”)
seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon …

This article sets out to examine the role of symbolic and sensorimotor representations in
discourse comprehension. It starts out with a review of the literature on situation models …

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 …

How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units
in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other
species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique …

Using language and thought to fix events in time is one of the most complex computational
feats that humans perform. In the first book-length taxonomy of temporal frames of reference …

Cognitive linguistics is one of the fastest growing and influential perspectives on the nature
of language, the mind, and their relationship with sociophysical (embodied) experience. It is …

The idea that concepts are embodied by our motor and sensory systems is popular in
current theorizing about cognition. Embodied cognition accounts come in different versions …