Experiential differences in the neural representation of word meaning: the impact of bodily and personal experience on action verb semantics. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
According to theories of Embodied Cognition (EC), word meaning is partly represented by the same perceptuo-motor systems used for perceiving and acting upon the referents of the linguistic utterance. Support for EC comes from work showing that reading action verbs like kick activates leg-areas in the premotor cortex. However, if EC is correct, any experiential differences in perceptuo-motor systems should be reflected in the semantic ...