Abstract Concepts and word meaning are fundamental to nearly all aspects of human
cognition. People use this knowledge daily to recognize entities and objects in their …

Recognizing an object involves more than just visual analyses; its meaning must also be
decoded. Extensive research has shown that processing the visual properties of objects …

To recognize visual objects, our sensory perceptions are transformed through dynamic
neural interactions into meaningful representations of the world but exactly how visual inputs …

This study shows that tempting food words activate simulations of eating the food, including
simulations of the taste and texture of the food, simulations of eating situations, and …

This study harnessed control ratings of the contribution of different types of information
(sensation, action, emotion, thought, social interaction, morality, time, space, quantity, and …

Recent investigations into grounded models of language have shown that holistic views of
language and perception can provide higher performance than independent views. In this …

Infants develop a lexical-semantic system of associatively and semantically related words by
the end of the second year of life. However, the precise nature of the lexical relationships …

We consider the problem of grounding the meaning of words in the physical world and focus
on the visual modality which we represent by visual attributes. We create a new large-scale …

Semantic norms for properties produced by native speakers are valuable tools for
researchers interested in the structure of semantic memory and in category-specific …

We report the construction and standardization of a new comprehensive battery of tests for
the assessment of semantic memory disorders. The battery is constructed on a common set …