An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

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 …

The sensory–motor account of conceptual processing suggests that modality-specific
attributes play a central role in the organization of object and action knowledge in the brain …

When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language
understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those …

Traditionally the motor system was thought of as a movement output device that, after brain
damage, can impede patients from correctly planning and executing an action. In the last 20 …

Can linguistic semantics affect neural processing in feature-specific visual regions?
Specifically, when we hear a sentence describing a situation that includes motion, do we …

This review brings together two fundamental, but unreconciled, aspects of human language:
embodiment and compositionality. One major scientific advance in recent decades has been …

Background Behavioral studies have provided evidence for an action–sentence
compatibility effect (ACE) that suggests a coupling of motor mechanisms and action …

Space for Thinking Page 1 Space for Thinking Daniel Casasanto Department of Psychology
Stanford University To appear in: Language, Cognition and Space: the state of the art and new …

How do abstract philosophies turn into lived reality? Based on 2 years of ethnographic
observations and in-depth interviews of vipassana meditation practitioners in Israel and the …