Understanding the goals or intentions of other people requires a broad range of evaluative
processes including the decoding of biological motion, knowing about object properties, and …

The motor theory of speech perception assumes that activation of the motor system is
essential in the perception of speech. However, deficits in speech perception and …

The study of neuronal specialisation in different cognitive and perceptual domains is
important for our understanding of the human brain, its typical and atypical development …

Readers mentally simulate the objects and events described in narratives. One common
assumption is that readers mentally embody an actor's perspective; alternatively, readers …

Recent theories of telepresence or spatial presence in a virtual environment argue that it is a
subjective experience of being in the virtual environment, and that it is the outcome of …

Observing and producing a smile activate the very same facial muscles. In Experiment 1, we
predicted and found that verbal stimuli (action verbs) that refer to emotional expressions …

The embodied cognition hypothesis suggests that motor and premotor areas are
automatically and necessarily involved in understanding action language, as word …

In line with recent theories of embodied cognition, the authors propose that the self-concept
may be embodied in sensory-motor representations. To test this notion, two studies …

This paper proposes an extension of existing embodied views of cognition in order to
account for the linguistic experience and its complexity. We claim that embodied views …

The hypothesis that power is mentally represented as size is tested. Using an interference
paradigm, two studies show that judgments of the power of groups are influenced by the font …