Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in cognition. However, the existing
materials that measure the sensorimotor basis of word meanings and concepts have been …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

In his 1836 essay “Maelzel's Chess Player” Edgar Allan Poe attempted to expose the hoax
of a machine which, according to its owner, Johann Mälzel, could play chess against a …

Three laboratory experiments involving students' behavior and brain imaging and one
randomized field experiment in a college physics class explored the importance of physical …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

Cognitive load theory is intended to provide instructional strategies derived from
experimental, cognitive load effects. Each effect is based on our knowledge of human …

In this article, I discuss some of the latest functional neuroimaging findings on the
organization of object concepts in the human brain. I argue that these data provide strong …