James J. Gibson, the founder of ecological psychology, introduced a radical empiricist
approach to perception and action centered on direct perception in naturalistic environments …

Accounting for how the human mind represents the internal and external world is a crucial
feature of many theories of human cognition. Central to this question is the distinction …

Both the imagery literature and grounded models of language comprehension emphasize
the tight coupling of high-level cognitive processes, such as forming a mental image of …

Strong versions of the embodied account of language processing propose that
comprehension depends on the mental simulation of sensorimotor experiences conveyed …

According to the experiential-simulations view of language, words automatically activate
experiential traces that stem from the reader's interactions with their referents. Here, we …

In recent research, a systematic association of musical pitch with space has been described
in the so-called Spatial-Pitch-Association-of-Response Codes-effect (SPARC). Typically …

This study explored differences between pianists and non-musicians during reading of
sentences describing high-or low-pitched auditory events. Based on the embodied model of …

In two experiments, we administered two binary classification tasks to third-to fifth-grade
students and found that either the conceptual size (Experiment 1) or semantic category …

This book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance. This book includes
a description of the often-forgotten kinesthetic sense, body awareness, somatic practices …

Previous research suggests that meaningful gestures in the absence of speech (ie
pantomimed gestures) influence lexical processing, but, the extent to which pantomimes …