Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

A growing body of evidence suggests that cognition is embodied and grounded. Abstract
concepts, though, remain a significant theoretical challenge. A number of researchers have …

Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Embodied theories of language propose that the way we communicate verbally is grounded
in our body. Nevertheless, the way a second language is conventionally taught does not …

Research in embodied and grounded cognition is defined by the types of hypotheses
researchers pursue, with specific emphasis on the ways in which the body, brain, and …

Signs and symbols relate to concepts and can be used to speak about objects, actions, and
their features. Theories of semantic grounding address the question how the latter two …

In this paper, we argue that several recent 'wide'perspectives on cognition (embodied,
embedded, extended, enactive, and distributed) are only partially relevant to the study of …

Numerical knowledge, including number concepts and arithmetic procedures, seems to be a
clear-cut case for abstract symbol manipulation. Yet, evidence from perceptual and motor …

Within the neurocognitive literature there is much debate about the role of the motor system
in language, social communication and conceptual processing. We suggest, here, that …

A number of new psycholinguistic variables has been proposed during the last years within
embodied cognition framework: modality experience rating (ie, relationship between words …