Grounded theories assume that there is no central module for cognition. According to this
view, all cognitive phenomena, including those considered the province of amodal cognition …

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 concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …

A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …

To explain how abstract concepts are grounded in sensory‐motor experiences, several
theories have been proposed. I will discuss two of these proposals, Conceptual Metaphor …

The aim of this study was to test the involvement of sensorimotor cortical circuits during the
beholding of the static consequences of hand gestures devoid of any meaning. In order to …

Action observation produces automatic “mirror” responses in the observers' motor system.
However, in daily life, nonimitative actions are often required to be produced in response to …

Mental rotations of body-related stimuli are known to engage the motor system and activate
body schema. Sensorimotor deficits following spinal cord injury (SCI) alter the …

The concept of affordance has been increasingly applied to stimulus–response compatibility
effects over the past 25 years, for which most explanations have been from an information …

Substantial evidence suggests that conceptual processing of manipulable objects is
associated with potentiation of action. Such data have been viewed as evidence that objects …