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

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

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 …

According to an embodied view of language comprehension, language concepts are
grounded in our perceptual systems. Evidence for the idea that concepts are grounded in …

Previous research shows that sensory and motor systems interact during perception, but
how these connections among systems are created during development is unknown. The …

Verb learning is difficult for children (Gentner,), partially because children have a bias to
associate a novel verb not only with the action it represents, but also with the object on …

Producing gesture can be a powerful tool for facilitating learning. This effect has been
replicated across a variety of academic domains, including algebra, chemistry, geometry …

Since its infancy embodied cognition research has fundamentally changed our
understanding of how action, perception, and cognition relate to and interact with each …

This volume tells the story of research on the cognitive processes of writing—from the
perspectives of the early pioneers, the contemporary contributors, and visions of the future …

Until recently, most neuroscience research on the brain was based on autopsies of
individuals who lost writing skills before death and, thus, acquired disorders later in …