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 …

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 …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

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 …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

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

The purpose of this paper is to propose a multiple approaches to explaining and predicting
individual differences in learning. First, this article briefly reviews critical problems with …

This 2006 book explores how people's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action
provide part of the fundamental grounding for human cognition and language. Cognition is …

Based on accumulating evidence, simulation appears to be a basic computational
mechanism in the brain that supports a broad spectrum of processes from perception to …