Language helps people communicate and think. Precise and accurate language would
seem best suited to achieve these goals. But a close look at the way people actually talk …

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 …

Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in cognition. However, the existing
materials that measure the sensorimotor basis of word meanings and concepts have been …

In beginning this chapter we immediately faced a dilemma. There is nothing that can be
called “the concept of function.” The phrase “concept of function,” regardless of its meaning …

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including
metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It …

This chapter highlights the fundamental assumptions shared by all constructionist
approaches, distinguishing them from mainstream generative grammar. In particular …

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

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 …

From the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol
manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field …