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

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether
sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and …

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 …

Scientific interest in expertise—superior performance within a specific domain—has a long
history in psychology. Although there is a broad consensus that a long period of practice is …

Previous research showed that modality-preferential sensorimotor areas are relevant for
processing concrete words used to speak about actions. However, whether modality …

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 …

The role of sensory-motor systems in conceptual understanding has been controversial. It
has been proposed that many abstract concepts are understood metaphorically through …

The grounding of concepts in the sensorimotor brain systems is controversially discussed.
Grounded cognition models propose that concepts are represented in modality-specific …

One of the most controversial issues in the cognitive neuroscience literature on concepts is
whether the motor features of verb meanings are represented in the precentral motor …

Abstract “Embodied” proposals claim that the meaning of at least some words, concepts and
constructions is grounded in knowledge about actions and objects. An alternative …