Dynamic systems is a recent theoretical approach to the study of development. In its
contemporary formulation, the theory grows directly from advances in understanding …

We demonstrate in two experiments that real and imagined body movements appropriate to
metaphorical phrases facilitate people's immediate comprehension of these phrases …

There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental
imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; …

Sociological propositions about the workings of cognition are rarely specified or tested, but
are of central relevance to studies of culture, social judgment, and social movements. This …

Metaphors link positive affect to brightness and negative affect to darkness. Research has
shown that such mappings are “alive” at encoding in that word-meaning evaluations are …

Recent theories propose that semantic representation and sensorimotor processing have a
common substrate via simulation. We tested the prediction that comprehension interacts with …

We investigated the question of whether comprehenders mentally simulate a described
situation even when this situation is explicitly negated in the sentence. In two experiments …

Do we view the world differently if it is described to us in figurative rather than literal terms?
An answer to this question would reveal something about both the conceptual …

We investigated two types of metaphors in stock market commentary. Agent metaphors
describe price trajectories as volitional actions, whereas object metaphors describe them as …

Embodied theories of cognition hold that mentally representing something red engages the
neural subsystems that respond to environmental perception of that colour. This paper …