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 …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

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 …

Single words and sentences referring to bodily actions activate the motor cortex. However,
this semantic grounding of concrete language does not address the critical question whether …

Traditionally, concepts are conceived as abstract mental entities distinct from perceptual or
motor brain systems. However, recent results let assume modality-specific representations of …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

Motor simulation theory (MST;) purports to explain how various action-related cognitive
states relate to actual motor execution. Specifically, it proposes that motor imagery (MI; …

In this volume Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers
draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and …

Sensorimotor areas activate to action-and object-related words, but their role in abstract
meaning processing is still debated. Abstract emotion words denoting body internal states …

The embodied cognition framework suggests that neural systems for perception and action
are engaged during higher cognitive processes. In an event-related fMRI study, we tested …