Socio-cognitive research on bilinguals points to a moral foreign-language effect (MFLE),
with more utilitarian choices (eg, sacrificing someone to save more people) for moral …

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 …

Theories of embodied cognition postulate that language processing activates similar
sensory-motor structures as when interacting with the environment. Only little is known about …

Do embodied semantic systems play different roles depending on when and how well a
given language was learned? Emergent evidence suggests that this is the case for isolated …

Barsalou (1999) proposes that conceptual knowledge is represented by mental simulations
containing perceptual information derived from actual experiences. Although a substantial …

Behavioral embodied research shows that words evoking limb-specific meanings can affect
responses performed with the corresponding body part. However, no study has explored this …

The existence of a consistent horizontal spatial-conceptual map** for words denoting time
is a well-established phenomenon. For example, words related to the past or future (eg …

According to embodied theories, motor and language processing bidirectionally interact:
Motor activation modulates behavior in lexico-semantic tasks (semantic resonance), and …

Physical activity can facilitate lexical integration, a phenomenon described as “embodied
learning,” learning that involves self-performed or self-generated action that is directly linked …

Pictures of objects are verified faster when they match the implied orientation, shape, and
color in a sentence-picture verification task, suggesting that people mentally simulate these …