This article sets out to examine the role of symbolic and sensorimotor representations in
discourse comprehension. It starts out with a review of the literature on situation models …

Humans seamlessly make sense of a rapidly changing environment, using a seemingly
limitless knowledgebase to recognize and adapt to most situations we encounter. This …

Using data from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), we explored
nine aspects of science engagement (science self-efficacy, science self-concept, enjoyment …

Debates on meaning and cognition suggest that an embodied cognition account is exclusive
of a symbolic cognition account. Decades of research in the cognitive sciences have …

The distributional pattern of words in language forms the basis of linguistic distributional
knowledge and contributes to conceptual processing, yet many questions remain regarding …

In a meta-analysis of 113 experiments we examined neurophysiological outcomes of
learning, and the relationship between neurophysiological and behavioral outcomes of …

This study investigated the effects of a mental simulation training targeted at improving
children's reading comprehension. In a 4-week period, one group of third and fourth graders …

il ragionamento, ovvero la capacità di fare inferenze, è ampiamente studiato in psicologia
rispetto a diversi domini cognitivi. Questo articolo si focalizza sui processi inferenziali che …

Cognitive maps are assumed to be fundamentally spatial and grounded only in perceptual
processes, as supported by the discovery of functionally dedicated cell types in the human …

A century of research has provided evidence of limited size sound symbolism in English, that
is, certain vowels are non-arbitrarily associated with words denoting small versus large …