The ventral visual stream is conceived as a pathway for object recognition. However, we
also recognize the actions an object can be involved in. Here, we show that action …

At first glance, conceptual representations (eg, our internal notion of the object “lemon”)
seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon …

Academic emotion regulation (AER), critical thinking (CT), self-efficacy belief (S-EB),
academic resilience (AR), and academic engagement (AE) are all important factors for the …

Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

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 …

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 …

This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world—and why stories matter.
How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds …

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole
or in part, in a modality-specific format–the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the …

Despite the growth of the metaverse, users' perception of their self-image based on the
embodied elements remains unexplored. This research explores the metaverse world's …

Embodied cognition accounts posit that concepts are grounded in our sensory and motor
systems. An important challenge for these accounts is explaining how abstract concepts …