There is a long history in philosophy of asking what the relationship is between the mind and
the body. This question is as relevant to language as to any cognitive function, since …

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are
motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on …

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday
guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive …

The study of human cognitive processes provides insight into why we act or react and can
help us predict future behaviors. In Cognition, authors Thomas Farmer and Margaret Matlin …

通过3 个实验, 考察具身模拟在汉语肢体动作动词理解中的作用. 实验1 考察在整字启动下具身
模拟对运动通道中箭头方向判断的影响, 发现理解肢体动作动词在运动通道中存在着动作 …

This descriptive study explores the gestures undergraduate students produce when talking
about the concept of standard deviation (SD). Gestures can be an important source of …

Research in Cognitive Linguistics has argued extensively for the pervasive role played by
space in structuring the concepts and conceptualisations associated with linguistic items …

If humans have evolved looking at the world in all its sharp detail, we might expect that a
picture that can reproduce that detailed world faithfully would be ideal for all pictorial …

Introduction: Subjects can improve their performance on memory for action phrases if, during
the encoding condition, they self-perform actions associated with verbs (subject-performed …

A fundamental issue concerning the treatment of meaning in context is how to deal with the
extremely flexible relationship that appears to hold between descriptions, which are taken as …