Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

At every point in the lifespan, the brain balances malleable processes representing neural
plasticity that promote change with homeostatic processes that promote stability. Whether a …

Language is an inherently social behavior. In this paper, we bring together two research
areas that typically occupy distinct sections of the literature: perspective taking in spatial …

This multiple single case study contrasted left hemisphere stroke patients (N= 6) to healthy
age-matched control participants (N= 15) on their understanding of action (eg, holding …

This study focuses on the ways that people interact around contemporary craft objects. The
ambiguous quality of these objects holds people's attention and inhibits autobiographical …

For a long time, the field of cognitive psychology was dominated by amodal theories of
cognition, which assume that our mind is organized into different modules that work …

The current project explores the nature of embodiment, specifically how affective
associations of physical posture interact with emotion in language. Previous research has …

Embodied Cognition accounts propose that motor activation contributes to semantic
representations in action language (Fischer & Zwaan, 2008). However, the nature of this …