People can conceptualize the same action (eg 'riding a bike') at different levels of abstraction
(LOA), where higher LOAs specify the abstract motives that explain why the action is …

Tools pose a challenge to the need to select actions appropriate for task goals and
environmental constraints. For many tools (eg, calculator), actions for “using” and “grasping …

Virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a rapidly developing technology that holds significant
promises to impact student learning. In this review, we focus on the features of this …

Intraoperative language mapping in awake surgery is typically conducted by asking the
patient to produce automatic speech and to name objects. These tasks might not map …

Conceptual knowledge is classically supposed to be abstract and represented in an amodal
unitary system, distinct from the sensory and motor brain systems. A more recent …

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

Naming of nouns and verbs can be selectively impaired in neurological disorders, but the
specificity of the neural and cognitive correlates of such dissociation remains unclear …

Many empiricist theories hold that concepts are composed of sensory–motor primitives. For
example, the meaning of the word “run” is in part a visual image of running. If action …

Asmaro D, Mayall J, Ferguson S. Cognition at altitude: impairment in executive and memory
processes under hypoxic conditions. Aviat Space Environ Med 2013; 84: 1159–65 …

Activation in sensorimotor areas of the brain following perception of linguistic stimuli
referring to objects and actions has been interpreted as evidence for strong theories of …