Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

Spontaneous gestures that accompany speech are related to both verbal and spatial
processes. We argue that gestures emerge from perceptual and motor simulations that …

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This
book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful …

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action presents a
comprehensive and detailed theory of early human development based on the principles of …

We humans are incarnate. Our embodiment shapes both what and how we experience,
think, mean, imagine, reason, and communicate. Th is claim is a bold one, and it fl ies in the …

This 2006 book explores how people's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action
provide part of the fundamental grounding for human cognition and language. Cognition is …

The emulation theory of representation is developed and explored as a framework that can
revealingly synthesize a wide variety of representational functions of the brain. The …

Human visual perception carves a scene at its physical joints, decomposing the world into
objects, which are selectively attended, tracked and predicted as we engage our …

Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics,
experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence—as well as his skill as a jazz pianist—to …

Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but
there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent …