Emotion concepts are important. They help us to understand, experience and predict human
behaviour. Emotion concepts also link the realm of the abstract with the realm of bodily …

The embodied account of language comprehension has been one of the most influential
theoretical developments in the recent decades addressing the question how humans …

According to grounded cognition, words whose semantics contain sensory‐motor features
activate sensory‐motor simulations, which, in turn, interact with spatial responses to produce …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Emoji are vastly becoming an integral part of everyday communication, yet little is
understood about the extent to which these are processed emotionally. Previous research …

Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such
theories have focused predominantly on the dominant senses of sight and hearing …

Several studies support the psychological reality of a mental timeline that runs from the left to
the right and may strongly affect our thinking about time. Ulrich and Maienborn (Cognition …

It is widely accepted that the valence of a word (neutral, positive, or negative) influences
lexical processing, yet data from the commonly used lexical decision and emotional Stroop …

Accounting for how the human mind represents the internal and external world is a crucial
feature of many theories of human cognition. Central to this question is the distinction …

What is the relationship between spatial language and abstract concepts? When people talk
about abstract things that they can never see or touch, they often use spatial metaphors (eg …