Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding
motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 …

Cognitive theories of metaphor understanding are typically described in terms of the
mappings between different kinds of abstract, schematic, disembodied knowledge. My claim …

Adding gesture to spoken instructions makes those instructions more effective. The question
we ask here is why. A group of 49 third and fourth grade children were given instruction in …

Flexibility in conceptual projection constitutes one of the most challenging issues in the
embodiment and conceptual metaphor literatures. We sketch a theoretical proposal that …

When participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences that describe
action toward the body (ie,“Mark dealt the cards to you”) or away from the body (ie,“You dealt …

Orientational metaphors that associate good with up and bad with down illustrate that spatial
terms can be used to describe positivity and negativity. The present work examined how the …

Previous reports have demonstrated that the comprehension of sentences describing motion
in a particular direction (toward, away, up, or down) is affected by concurrently viewing a …

This dissertation investigates the interaction of metaphoric and metonymic modes in
language and co-speech gesture. The corpus for this study consists of academic discourse …

Making progress toward human-level artificial intelligence often seems to require a large
number of difficult-to-integrate computational methods and enormous amounts of knowledge …

Current work on conceptual integration and literary texts often features detailed analysis of a
single reading of a text in terms of the conceptual integration networks involved in …