The grounding of concepts in the sensorimotor brain systems is controversially discussed.
Grounded cognition models propose that concepts are represented in modality-specific …

Understanding each other is a core concept of social cohesion and, consequently, has
immense value in human society. Importantly, shared information leading to cohesion can …

Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such
theories have focused predominantly on the dominant senses of sight and hearing …

Despite decades of research, the nature of the involvement of the motor system in action
language processing is still controversial, and little is known about how processing action …

Numerous studies have highlighted a strong relationship between language and
sensorimotor processes, showing, for example, that perceiving an action influences …

Objective Many studies have demonstrated the existence of a link between action verb
processing and action. However, little is known about the changes in this relationship with …

By chunking continuous streams of action into ordered, discrete, and meaningful units, event
segmentation facilitates motor learning. While expertise in the observed repertoire reduces …

Several studies have demonstrated that perceiving an action influences the subsequent
processing of action verbs. However, which characteristics of the perceived action are truly …

Speakers communicate more than what they explicitly state. For this reason, addressees rely
on linguistic and extra-linguistic cues to recover different levels of explicit and implicit …

Negi ultimi anni abbiamo assistito ad un revival dell'interazione tra filosofia e scienze
cognitive (per una disamina si vedano, Ferretti e Viola, 2019; Brooks, 2009; Dennett, 2009; …