Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

People readily generalize knowledge to novel domains and stimuli. We present a theory,
instantiated in a computational model, based on the idea that cross-domain generalization …

Recent research in psycholinguistics suggests that language processing frequently involves
mental imagery. This paper focuses on visual imagery and discusses two issues regarding …

The Metaphor Compass: Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition,
Communication, and Creativity provides a roadmap to navigate the recent findings and …

The theory of embodied semantics holds that verbal metaphors are strongly grounded in
sensorimotor experience. Many studies have proven that besides sensorimotor simulation …

When describing motion along both the horizontal and vertical axes, languages from
different families express the elements encoding verticality before those coding for …

When we read fiction, we encounter characters that interact in the story. As such, we encode
that information and comprehend the stories. Prior studies suggest that this comprehension …

Previous evidence shows that words with implicit spatial meaning or metaphorical spatial
associations are perceptually simulated and can guide attention to associated locations (eg …

An Introduction to Lexical Semantics provides a comprehensive theoretical overview of
lexical semantics, analysing the major lexical categories in English: verbs, nouns …

This theoretical article looks at the process of understanding abstract concepts from the
perspective of distributed models of conceptual representation. According to these models …