The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing
belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support …

ABSTRACT A core assumption in the current neurosemantic research is that meanings of
concrete words (object nouns, action verbs) are at least partially grounded in modality …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

Many words are strongly connected to the senses, such as vision, taste, and touch. In order
to facilitate research on language and the senses, large sets of linguistic stimuli and their …

We present EmoPro, a normative study of the emotion lexicon of the Spanish language. We
provide emotional prototypicality ratings for 1286 emotion words (ie, those that refer to …

Landscapes are essential to human life: they provide a multitude of material (food, water,
pollination) and nonmaterial (beauty, tranquility, recreation) values. Their importance is …

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 …

Psychologists and linguists collect various data on word and concept properties. In
psychology, scholars have accumulated norms and ratings for a large number of words in …

Perceptual experience through the five modalities (ie, vision, hearing, touch, taste, and
smell) has demonstrated its key role in semantics. Researchers also highlighted the role of …

Neuroscience research has provided evidence that semantic information is stored in a
distributed brain network involved in sensorimotor and linguistic processing. More …