Previous studies have shown that object properties are processed faster when they follow
properties from the same perceptual modality than properties from different modalities …

The cognitive science literature increasingly demonstrates that perceptual representations
are activated during conceptual processing. Such findings suggest that the debate on …

Perception is described within a complex systems framework that includes several
constructs: resonance, attractors, subsymbols, and design principles. This framework was …

There is increasing evidence from response time experiments that language statistics and
perceptual simulations both play a role in conceptual processing. In an EEG experiment we …

Perceptual information is important for the meaning of nouns. We present modality
exclusivity norms for 485 Dutch nouns rated on visual, auditory, haptic, gustatory, and …

Across the cognitive sciences, standard theories of knowledge typically adopt the
assumptions of what we call amodal symbol systems. According to this view, in formation in …

A major part of learning a language is learning to map spoken words onto objects in the
environment. An open question is what are the consequences of this learning for cognition …

Abstract words are typically more difficult to identify than concrete words in lexical-decision,
word-naming, and recall tasks. This behavioral advantage, known as the concreteness …

Debates on meaning and cognition suggest that an embodied cognition account is exclusive
of a symbolic cognition account. Decades of research in the cognitive sciences have …

Recent theories of cognition have argued that embodied experience is important for
conceptual processing. Embodiment can be contrasted with linguistic factors such as the …