How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …
In the first few years of life, human infants evolve from helpless creatures that are totally dependent on others around them into walking and talking preschoolers. Just after birth …
Grounded cognition accounts of semantic representation posit that brain regions traditionally linked to perception and action play a role in grounding the semantic content of words and …
K Kok, A Cienki - Language and Cognition, 2017 - cambridge.org
Recent embodied theories of meaning known as 'simulation semantics' posit that language comprehension engages, or even amounts to, mental simulation. What is meant here by …
BA Irwin - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Enactivist accounts of language use generally treat concrete words in terms of motor intentionality systems and affordances for action. There is less consensus, though, regarding …
Recent experimental evidence suggests that spatial distance between two depicted objects in a non-referential visual context (ie, when neither spatial distance nor the objects were …
A multimodal research agenda is gaining traction in organisational research; multimodality is the theory and understanding that multiple modes of communication outside of speech …
A crucial question facing cognitive science concerns the nature of conceptual representations as well as the constraints on the interactions between them. One specific …
Evidence that higher cognitive processes are coupled in a graded and time-continuous way to sensory-motor processes comes, in part, from mouse-tracking studies. In these, curved …