The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing
belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support …

Abstract concepts are relevant to a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science,
linguistics, psychology, cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience, and philosophy. This …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

Many words are strongly connected to the senses, such as vision, taste, and touch. In order
to facilitate research on language and the senses, large sets of linguistic stimuli and their …

Embodied theories of cognition consider many aspects of language and other cognitive
domains as the result of sensory and motor processes. In this view, the appraisal and the …

Landscapes are essential to human life: they provide a multitude of material (food, water,
pollination) and nonmaterial (beauty, tranquility, recreation) values. Their importance is …

The present article provides a narrative review on how language communicates sensory
information and how knowledge of sight and sound develops in individuals born deaf or …

Abstraction enables us to categorize experience, learn new information, and form
judgments. Language arguably plays a crucial role in abstraction, providing us with words …

This paper introduces a novel collection of word embeddings, numerical representations of
lexical semantics, in 55 languages, trained on a large corpus of pseudo-conversational …

Psychologists and linguists collect various data on word and concept properties. In
psychology, scholars have accumulated norms and ratings for a large number of words in …