Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

Las funciones ejecutivas se encuentran entre los procesos más complejos del humano; su
desarrollo permite la conformación de diversas capacidades de control, y organización de …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

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 …

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole
or in part, in a modality-specific format–the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the …

Recent theories propose that cognition is embodied in the sense that it is critically based on
reinstatements of external (perception) and internal states (proprioception) as well as bodily …

According to embodied cognition theories, higher cognitive abilities depend on the
reenactment of sensory and motor representations. In the first part of this review, we critically …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

According to theories of embodied cognition, understanding a verb like throw involves
unconsciously simulating the action of throwing, using areas of the brain that support motor …