Neuroimaging and neuropsychological experiments suggest that modality-preferential
cortices, including motor-and somatosensory areas, contribute to the semantic processing of …

Previous research showed that modality-preferential sensorimotor areas are relevant for
processing concrete words used to speak about actions. However, whether modality …

This fMRI study investigated the functional mechanisms related to mental simulation of
abstract-and action-related words and measured the effect of the type of stimulus (Abstract …

Language, believed to have originated from actions, not only functions as a medium to
access other minds, but it also helps us commit actions and enriches our social life. This …

This study asks whether lesions in different parts of the brain have different effects on the
processing of words typically used to refer to objects with and without action affordances, for …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

Since the early days of research into language and the brain, word meaning was assumed
to be processed in specific brain regions, which most modern neuroscientists localize to the …

The grounding of concepts in the sensorimotor brain systems is controversially discussed.
Grounded cognition models propose that concepts are represented in modality-specific …

Recent theories propose a flexible recruitment of sensory and motor brain regions during
conceptual processing depending on context and task. The present functional magnetic …

The cognitive and neural representation of abstract words is still an open question for
theories of embodied cognition. Generally, it is proposed that abstract words are grounded …