Body–object interaction (BOI) measures the ease with which the human body can interact
with the concept represented by a word. This research focuses on two main objectives: first …

Multiple representation theories posit that concepts are represented via a combination of
properties derived from sensorimotor, affective, and linguistic experiences. Recently, it has …

Emotion can have facilitative effects on word processing with words that label emotions
and/or have strong emotional associations (high valence and/or arousal) showing an …

Our main objective was to analyze the role of imageability in relation to the age of
acquisition (AoA) of nouns and verbs in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome …

Imageability, an important word characteristic in the psycholinguistic literature, is typically
assessed by asking participants to estimate the ease with which a word can evoke a mental …

Semantic dimensions such as context availability, imageability and valence, form core
components of many theoretical accounts of lexical processing. Typically, normative data for …

Semantic richness theory predicts that words with richer, more distinctive semantic
representations should facilitate performance in a word recognition memory task. We …

Lexicon projects (LPs) are large-scale data resources in different languages that present
behavioral results from visual word recognition tasks. Analyses using LP data in multiple …

Several lexical databases have been developed in both English-speaking countries and
other countries, leading to numerous studies using these resources. A prominent example is …

Recognition of a word and its meaning benefits from the sensorimotor information about
concepts. However, this phenomenon has been underexplored in second language (L2) …