Manual actions are a hallmark of humanness. Their underlying neural circuitry gives rise to
species-specific skills and interacts with language processes. In particular, multiple studies …

Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly
after. In Experiment 1, while seated and then when walking on a treadmill, adults completed …

Multimodality, in its most fundamental sense, is the coexistence of more than one semiotic
mode within a given context. More generally, multimodality is an everyday reality. It is the …

Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition's unified theory of cognition in
literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and …

Recent findings in psychology, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience present a challenge to
current amodal theories by suggesting that cognitive states are not disembodied in …

Publisher Summary Most notably, comprehension necessitates the application of prior
knowledge in combination with the encoding of information currently in discourse focus …

Which types of nerve cell circuits enable humans to use and understand meaningful signs
and words? Philosophers were the first to point out that the arbitrary links between signs and …

Two experiments investigate the effects of language comprehension on affordances.
Participants read a sentence composed by either an observation or an action verb (Look …

It has become increasingly clear over the past few years that the symbols used by language
become meaningful through grounding. For example, Glenberg and Kaschak (2002) …

Previous studies have demonstrated that verbal descriptions of actions activate compatible
motor responses (Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006). The present study …