A growing body of research suggests that comprehending verbal descriptions of actions
relies on an internal simulation of the described action. To assess this motor resonance …

Do people use sensori-motor cortices to understand language? Here we review
neurocognitive studies of language comprehension in healthy adults and evaluate their …

Working outside can be harder than inside; one may be physically more active, regularly
battling against the elements and often more alert--watchful for potential dangers. Overall …

Abstract The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of
the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are asked to make …

Embodiment theory proposes that neural systems for perception and action are also
engaged during language comprehension. Previous neuroimaging and neurophysiological …

Embodied theories are increasingly challenging traditional views of cognition by arguing
that conceptual representations that constitute our knowledge are grounded in sensory and …

Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Many animals can be trained to perform novel tasks. People, too, can be trained, but
sometime in early childhood people transition from being trainable to something qualitatively …

Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …

Drawing on research in narrative theory and literary aesthetics, text and discourse
processing, phenomenology and the experimental cognitive sciences, this paper outlines an …