Over the past decade, theories of embodied cognition have become increasingly influential
with research demonstrating that sensorimotor experiences are involved in cognitive …

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 …

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 perceptual, sensorimotor, and affective
properties of concepts support language learning and processing. In this paper, we argue …

The development of children's word knowledge is an important testing ground for the
embodied account of word meaning, which proposes that word meanings are grounded in …

A growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific
factors on language acquisition. During language acquisition, German children from six …

Touch cues might facilitate infants' early word comprehension and explain the early
understanding of body part words. Parents were instructed to teach their infants, 4-to 5 …

This longitudinal study explored how mothers' sensitivity in responding to their child's
cognitive and emotional needs in infancy and toddlerhood predicts children's pre …

Theories of embodied cognition propose that sensorimotor experience is essential to
learning, representing, and accessing conceptual information. Embodied effects have been …

In 1628, Descartes told us how to do science: in studying any phenomenon, simplify it to its
essential components, dissect away everything else. In this way, by separately studying the …