Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

Mental representations allow humans to think about, remember and communicate about an
infinite number of concepts. A key question within cognitive psychology is how the mind …

La cognition a longtemps été pensée comme opérant dans la tour d'ivoire que serait le
cerveau, le corps et l'environnement tenant un rôle secondaire. Pourtant, nos …

Ratings of body–object interaction (BOI) measure the ease with which the human body can
interact with a word's referent. Researchers have studied the effects of BOI in order to …

This study explores the impact of the extensive use of an oral device since infancy (pacifier)
on the acquisition of concrete, abstract, and emotional concepts. While recent evidence …

It is well established that sensory experience is influential in children's early concepts.
Opinions diverge, however, on the role of sensorimotor experience in conceptual …

Abstract words refer to concepts that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (eg
truth, morality). How we ground the meanings of abstract words is one of the deepest …

According to embodied and grounded theories, concepts are grounded in sensorimotor
systems. The majority of evidence supporting these views concerns concepts referring to …

We tested predictions of multiple representation accounts of conceptual processing,
including the proposal that emotion information may provide a bootstrap** mechanism for …

One of the strategies that researchers have used to investigate the role of sensorimotor
information in lexical–semantic processing is to examine the effects of words' rated body …