Spontaneous gestures that accompany speech are related to both verbal and spatial
processes. We argue that gestures emerge from perceptual and motor simulations that …

Psychology for the Classroom: Constructivism and Social Learning provides a lively
introduction to the much debated topics of talk and group collaboration in classrooms, and …

Metaphorically, power equals up. Drawing on embodied theories of cognition, the author
argues that thinking about power involves mental simulation of space and can be interfered …

Abstract What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing
the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges …

Previous research has shown that na_ve participants display a high level of agreement
when asked to choose or drawschematic representations, or image schemas, of concrete …

This article examines the phenomenon of Virtual Interpersonal Touch (VIT), people touching
one another via force-feedback haptic devices. As collaborative virtual environments …

Recent theories propose that semantic representation and sensorimotor processing have a
common substrate via simulation. We tested the prediction that comprehension interacts with …

Orientational metaphors that associate good with up and bad with down illustrate that spatial
terms can be used to describe positivity and negativity. The present work examined how the …

How do people understand language? Though vital to the study of language and the mind, a
disproportionately small body of empirical work has historically addressed this question …

This dissertation investigates the interaction of metaphoric and metonymic modes in
language and co-speech gesture. The corpus for this study consists of academic discourse …