The effects of late gestation maternal nutrient restriction with or without protein supplementation on endocrine regulation of newborn and postnatal beef calves

CT LeMaster, RK Taylor, RE Ricks, NM Long - Theriogenology, 2017 - Elsevier
A study was conducted to evaluate late gestation maternal nutrient restriction (NR) with or
without protein supplementation on endocrine regulation in newborn beef calves. This study …

HD-tDCS over motor cortex facilitates figurative and literal action sentence processing

K Johari, N Riccardi, S Malyutina, M Modi, RH Desai - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
The extent to which action and perception systems of the brain are involved in semantic
comprehension remains controversial. Whether figurative language, such as metaphors and …

[HTML][HTML] Procedure for identifying metaphorical scenes (PIMS): A cognitive linguistics approach to bridge theory and practice

MJ Falck, L Okonski - Cognitive semantics, 2022 - brill.com
Over the past decades, several procedures have been developed to identify metaphors at
the lexical level. However, because language is complex, there may not be one superior …

Toward semantics in the wild: activation to manipulable nouns in naturalistic reading

RH Desai, W Choi, VT Lai… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
The neural basis of language processing, in the context of naturalistic reading of connected
text, is a crucial but largely unexplored area. Here we combined functional MRI and eye …

A quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of pragmatic language comprehension: in search of a universal neural substrate

A Reyes-Aguilar, E Valles-Capetillo, M Giordano - Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Pragmatics may be defined as the ability to communicate by expressing and recognizing
intentions. The objective of this meta-analysis was to identify neural substrates for …

[HTML][HTML] Action and object words are differentially anchored in the sensory motor system-A perspective on cognitive embodiment

H Horoufchin, D Bzdok, G Buccino, AM Borghi… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Embodied and grounded cognition theories have assumed that the sensorimotor system is
causally involved in processing motor-related language content. Although a causal proof on …

Embodied metaphor

RW Gibbs Jr - The Bloomsbury companion to cognitive linguistics, 2014 - torrossa.com
The possibility that metaphor has something to do with mundane bodily experience was
once seen as a shocking idea in the world of metaphor scholarship. Metaphors in language …

[HTML][HTML] HD-tDCS of primary and higher-order motor cortex affects action word processing

K Johari, N Riccardi, S Malyutina, M Modi… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The contribution of action-perception systems of the brain to lexical semantics remains
controversial. Here, we used high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD …

Discovering the structure of mathematical problem solving

JR Anderson, HS Lee, JM Fincham - NeuroImage, 2014 - Elsevier
The goal of this research is to discover the stages of mathematical problem solving, the
factors that influence the duration of these stages, and how these stages are related to the …

The concreteness of abstract language: an ancient issue and a new perspective

G Buccino, I Colagè, F Silipo, P D'Ambrosio - Brain Structure and Function, 2019 - Springer
This paper addresses the debated issue of abstract language in the framework of
embodiment. First, we discuss the notion of abstractness in the light of the Western …