Many words are strongly connected to the senses, such as vision, taste, and touch. In order
to facilitate research on language and the senses, large sets of linguistic stimuli and their …

This paper presents a review of studies that have provided evidence supporting
metaphorical embodiment. These studies are divided into three categories of behavioral …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

Perceptual experience through the five modalities (ie, vision, hearing, touch, taste, and
smell) has demonstrated its key role in semantics. Researchers also highlighted the role of …

Metaphors that describe an abstract concept in terms of a motion concept are widely used to
enhance our understanding of abstract concepts. These metaphors are used not only in our …

This study measured hand and head action strengths of eight typical emotional states using
an authentic but implicit emotion elicitation task. Participants listened to and then retold five …

Representational transformation is a technique for deepening our understanding of
mathematical concepts and facilitating the process of solving mathematical problems. This …

This paper introduces a novel collection of word embeddings, numerical representations of
lexical semantics, in 55 languages, trained on a large corpus of pseudo-conversational …

Despite humans' ability to communicate about concepts relating to different senses, word
learning research tends to largely focus on labeling visual objects. Although sensory …

Sensorimotor information is vital to the conceptual representation of our knowledge system.
This study collects perceptual and action ratings for 664 disyllabic nouns among 438 native …