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  1. Naming a Lego World. The Role of Language in the Acquisition of Abstract Concepts
  2. Embodiment Theory
  3. Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions
  4. How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and stimulus size
  5. Nomina sunt consequentia rerum – Sound–shape correspondences with every-day objects figures
  6. The body and the fading away of abstract concepts and words: a sign language analysis
  7. Learning to Manipulate and Categorize in Human and Artificial Agents
  8. Action and Language Integration: From Humans to Cognitive Robots
  9. Verb concepts from affordances
  10. Affordances and contextual flexibility
  11. I give you a cup, I get a cup: A kinematic study on social intention
  12. Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts
  13. Language, Languages, and Abstract Concepts
  14. Word Learning and Word Acquisition
  15. The Problem of Definition
  16. The WAT Proposal and the Role of Language
  17. What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Abstract Concepts
  18. Embodied and Hybrid Theories of Abstract Concepts and Words
  19. The Impact of Social Context and Language Comprehension on Behaviour: A Kinematic Investigation
  20. Visual context modulates potentiation of grasp types during semantic object categorization
  21. A Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts
  22. Perceiving object dangerousness: an escape from pain?
  23. Counting Is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion
  24. Theories and computational models of affordance and mirror systems: An integrative review
  25. Disentangling the sense of ownership from the sense of fairness
  26. Context and hand posture modulate the neural dynamics of tool–object perception
  27. Heaven can wait. How religion modulates temporal discounting
  28. Alice in Legoland: A behavioral study on abstract words
  29. The embodied mind extended: using words as social tools
  30. Are abstract action words embodied? An fMRI investigation at the interface between language and motor cognition
  31. Keep Away from Danger: Dangerous Objects in Dynamic and Static Situations
  32. Abstract and concrete phrases processing differentially modulates cortico-spinal excitability
  33. Grasping the pain: Motor resonance with dangerous affordances
  34. One hand, two objects: Emergence of affordance in contexts
  35. Which body for embodied cognition? Affordance and language within actual and perceived reaching space
  36. Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position
  37. Object Affordances Tune Observers' Prior Expectations about Tool-Use Behaviors
  38. Can object affordances impact on human social learning of tool use?
  39. Human and robotics hands grasping danger
  40. Self, others, objects: How this triadic interaction modulates our behavior
  41. Kids observing other kids’ hands: Visuomotor priming in children
  42. How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS
  43. Embodied and grounded cognition
  44. Acting in perspective: the role of body and language as social tools
  45. Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop-Signal performance
  46. With hands I do not centre! Action- and object-related effects of hand-cueing in the line bisection
  47. Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: a study with the computational model TRoPICALS
  48. Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: a study with the computational model TRoPICALS
  49. Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study
  50. When objects are close to me: Affordances in the peripersonal space
  51. Graspable Objects Shape Number Processing
  52. Introduction to the Special Topic Embodied and Grounded Cognition
  53. Abstract and Concrete Sentences, Embodiment, and Languages
  54. Manipulating Objects and Telling Words: A Study on Concrete and Abstract Words Acquisition
  55. Simon-Like and Functional Affordance Effects with Tools: The Effects of Object Perceptual Discrimination and Object Action State
  56. God: Do I have your attention?
  57. When Action Meets Emotions: How Facial Displays of Emotion Influence Goal-Related Behavior
  58. Grasping language – A short story on embodiment
  59. A reinforcement learning model of reaching integrating kinematic and dynamic control in a simulated arm robot
  60. When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of motor simulation in a memory task performed by novice and expert rock climbers
  61. The sense of body: A multidisciplinary approach to body representation
  62. Categorization and action: What about object consistence?
  63. Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body
  64. Sentence comprehension: effectors and goals, self and others. An overview of experiments and implications for robotics
  65. TRoPICALS: A computational embodied neuroscience model of compatibility effects.
  66. God: Do i have your attention?
  67. Objects, Words and Actions: Some Reasons Why Embodied Models are Badly Needed in Cognitive Psychology
  68. Conceptual information about size of objects in nouns
  69. How action and context priming influence categorization: A developmental study
  70. Moving hands, moving entities
  71. Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable affordances
  72. Language comprehension and dominant hand motion simulation
  73. The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment
  74. Language-induced motor activity in bi-manual object lifting
  75. Hand–object interaction in perspective
  76. Categorization and sensorimotor interaction with objects
  77. Body image and body schema: The shared representation of body image and the role of dynamic body schema in perspective and imitation
  78. Is a Large Nut Like An Apple? Studies with Real and Modified Sized Objects
  79. Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system
  80. Language Modulation of the Motor System: A Study on Weight Perception
  81. Reaction to Positive and Negative Words: Attraction or Repulsion?
  82. Comprehension of Sentences Implying Actions: Relevance of the Effector and of the Goal
  83. Are visual stimuli sufficient to evoke motor information?
  84. 8. Do we access object manipulability while we categorize? Evidence from reaction time studies
  85. Action and hierarchical levels of categories: A connectionist perspective
  86. Conceptual information on objects’ locations
  87. Meaning and motor actions: Artificial life and behavioral evidence
  88. Putting words in perspective
  89. Object concepts and action: Extracting affordances from objects parts
  90. Situation bounded conceptual organization in children: from action to spatial relations
  91. La psicologia a Würzburg Il carattere teleonomico e selettivo del pensiero
  92. Object Concepts and Action
  93. 139. Embodied cognition and word acquisition: The challenge of abstract words