Do people use sensori-motor cortices to understand language? Here we review
neurocognitive studies of language comprehension in healthy adults and evaluate their …

In 1988, the cognitive revolution had become institutionalized: Cognition was the
manipulation of abstract symbols by rules. But, much like institutionalized political parties …

The role of the sensorimotor system in second language (L2) semantic processing as well
as its clinical implications for bilingual patients has hitherto been neglected. We offer an …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …

Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …

Drawing on research in narrative theory and literary aesthetics, text and discourse
processing, phenomenology and the experimental cognitive sciences, this paper outlines an …

Many neurocognitive studies on the role of motor structures in action-language processing
have implicitly adopted a “dictionary-like” framework within which lexical meaning is …

The ability to comprehend and represent the temporal properties of an occurrence is a
crucial aspect of human language and cognition. Despite advances in neurolinguistic …

Recent research has suggested that reading involves the mental simulation of events and
actions described in a text. It is possible however that previous findings did not tap into …

В книге рассматривается вопрос о воздействии структуры языка на познавательные
способности его носителей, или проблема лингвистической относительности. В …