At first glance, conceptual representations (eg, our internal notion of the object “lemon”)
seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon …

The sensorimotor system plays a critical role in several cognitive processes. Here, we
review recent studies documenting this interplay at different levels. First, we concentrate on …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to
evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor …

The reasoning-based approach championed by Francois Osiurak and Arnaud Badets
(Osiurak & Badets, 2016) denies the existence of sensory-motor memories of tool use except …

The perception of objects does not rely only on visual brain areas, but also involves cortical
motor regions. In particular, different parietal and premotor areas host neurons discharging …

Action understanding lies at the heart of social interaction. Prior research has often
conceptualized this capacity in terms of a motoric matching of observed actions to an action …

Affordances, ie the opportunity of actions offered by the environment, are one of the central
research topics for the theoretical perspectives that view cognition as emerging from the …

Following neuroscience, and using different labels, several philosophers have addressed
the idea of the presence of a single representational mechanism lying in between (visual) …

Semantic retrieval is flexible, allowing us to focus on subsets of features and associations
that are relevant to the current task or context: for example, we use taxonomic relations to …