Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

This tutorial focuses on the sense of touch within the context of a fully active human
observer. It is intended for graduate students and researchers outside the discipline who …

Sensorimotor information plays a fundamental role in cognition. However, the existing
materials that measure the sensorimotor basis of word meanings and concepts have been …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

A basic claim of the embodiment framework is that all psychological processes are
influenced by body morphology, sensory systems, motor systems, and emotions. As such …

Recent theories of embodied cognition suggest new ways to look at how we process
emotional information. The theories suggest that perceiving and thinking about emotion …

The human conceptual system contains knowledge that supports all cognitive activities,
including perception, memory, language and thought. According to most current theories …

Four theories of the human conceptual system—semantic memory, exemplar models, feed‐
forward connectionist nets, and situated simulation theory—are characterised and …

1. Words activate brain regions that are close to or overlap with brain areas that are active
during perception of or actions involving the words' referents (Isenberg et al., 1999; Martin & …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …