Embodiment approaches to cognition and emotion have put forth the idea that the way we
think and talk about affective events often recruits spatial information that stems, to some …

Abstract According to the Body‐Specificity Hypothesis (BSH), people implicitly associate
positive ideas with the side of space on which they are able to act more fluently with their …

Abstract The Roman author Lucius Anneus Seneca (4 BC–65 AC), the main representative
of Stoic philosophy in Latin literature, wrote several tragedies in verse in which the Latin …

Preface is bookgrew out of my dissatisfaction with the somewhat mechanistic
conceptualization of language ushered by some usage-based approaches. is position is …

This work introduces the Spatial Affective Interaction (SAI) framework within Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI), linking embodied interaction with affective computing. It …

El principal objetivo de este artículo es describir y sistematizar, desde la perspectiva de la
Teoría de la Metáfora Conceptual, los contextos en los que se emplea el término manus …

This study investigates whether linguistic influences can affect the manifestation of lateral
space-valence mappings in people's minds. Although most oral languages and cultures of …

This thesis explores metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication, and their
connection to the cognitive processes that are involved in language comprehension and …

When a speaker uses a linguistic metaphor, how do we know that they are thinking
metaphorically? One answer is by looking at their gestures (eg, Müller, 2008). In this thesis, I …

The intuition of clarity–valence association seems to be pervasive in daily life, however,
whether there exists a potential association between clarity (ie, operationalized as visual …