It is well established that sensory experience is influential in children's early concepts.
Opinions diverge, however, on the role of sensorimotor experience in conceptual …

Evolution and the brain have done a marvelous job solving many tricky problems in action
control, including problems of learning, hierarchical control over serial behavior, continuous …

Comprehending spoken words requires a lexicon of sound patterns and knowledge of their
referents in the world. Tincoff and Jusczyk (1999) demonstrated that 6‐month‐olds link the …

Theories of embodied cognition postulate that language processing activates similar
sensory-motor structures as when interacting with the environment. Only little is known about …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

How can humans acquire relational representations that enable analogical inference and
other forms of high-level reasoning? Using comparative relations as a model domain, we …

Several studies indicate that school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI)
have difficulties with tasks that rely on executive functions. Whether executive function …

This study investigated neural activation patterns during verb processing in children, using
fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Preschool children (aged 4–6) passively …

Children's fine motor skills (FMS) are being increasingly recognized as an important aspect
of preschool development; yet, we know very little about the experiences that foster their …

The authors provide an alternative to the traditional view that verbs are harder to learn than
nouns by reviewing three lines of behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in word …