According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent
semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the …

The application of single-item measures has the potential to help applied researchers
address conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges. Based on a large-scale …

In the chapter, I describe the main features of what can be taken to be “standard” conceptual
metaphor theory (as proposed by Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999), alongside what can be …

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, an understanding of the structure and organization
of beliefs in pandemic conspiracy theories and misinformation becomes increasingly critical …

The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

The issue of how abstract concepts are represented is widely debated. However, evidence
is controversial, also because different criteria were used to select abstract concepts–for …

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 …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

From the perspective of the situated conceptualization framework, the primary purpose of
concepts is for categorizing and integrating elements of situations to support goal-directed …