Left-handers are often excluded from study cohorts in neuroscience and neurogenetics in
order to reduce variance in the data. However, recent investigations have shown that the …

Among other things, humans talk about what they perceive and do, like “glowing,”“hopping,”
and “squeaking.” What is the relationship between our sensory‐motor experiences and word …

L'évolution a mis en place chez le vivant, face à la complexité du monde et l'augmentation
de la complexité des organismes vivants, des «principes simplificateurs». Ils ne sont pas …

The structure of the chapter is roughly as follows. We begin by contrasting embodiment
theories with their main competitors—theories that emphasize the amodal, propositional …

Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the body-specificity
hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009), they should. In this article, I review evidence that right-and …

Background According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people with different bodily
characteristics should form correspondingly different mental representations, even in highly …

A major part of learning a language is learning to map spoken words onto objects in the
environment. An open question is what are the consequences of this learning for cognition …

Some metaphor scholars have proposed that certain notable metaphorical expressions in
speech and writing may have been deliberately composed, and quite consciously employed …

Can children's handedness influence how they represent abstract concepts like kindness
and intelligence? Here we show that from an early age, right‐handers associate rightward …

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) allow control of various applications or external devices
solely by brain activity, eg, measured by electroencephalography during motor imagery …