The notion of embodied learning has gained ground in educational sciences over the last
decade and has made its way to language education with researchers acknowledging …

The presence of complementary information across multiple sensory or motor modalities
during learning, referred to as multimodal enrichment, can markedly benefit learning …

The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded
theories need to face, ie, that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Abstract concepts, like justice and friendship, are central features of our daily lives.
Traditionally, abstract concepts are distinguished from other concepts in that they cannot be …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

It has been proposed that social experience plays an important role in the grounding of
concepts, and socialness has been proffered as a fundamental organisational principle …

There is a longstanding and widely held misconception about the relative remoteness of
abstract concepts from concrete experiences. This review examines the current evidence for …

Many of the key problems humans are facing today result from desires, habits, and social
norms impeding behavior change. Here, we apply a grounded cognition perspective to …

From the perspectives of grounded, situated, and embodied cognition, we have developed a
new approach for assessing individual differences. Because this approach is grounded in …