Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether
sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and …

Listening to speech recruits a network of fronto-temporo-parietal cortical areas [1]. Classical
models consider anterior (motor) sites to be involved in speech production whereas …

Embodied cognition (EC) underlines that cognition is constrained by the kind of body we
possess, and stresses the importance of action for cognition. In this perspective the body is …

Symbolic gestures, such as pantomimes that signify actions (eg, threading a needle) or
emblems that facilitate social transactions (eg, finger to lips indicating “be quiet”), play an …

Sixty years ago, Karl Lashley suggested that complex action sequences, from simple motor
acts to language and music, are a fundamental but neglected aspect of neural function …

This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our
concepts are represented in at least two ways:(i) through sensorimotor simulations of our …

Humans commonly understand the unobservable mental states of others by observing their
actions. Embodied simulation theories suggest that this ability may be based in areas of the …

The cognitive and neural representation of abstract words is still an open question for
theories of embodied cognition. Generally, it is proposed that abstract words are grounded …