Section I: Language and action: Past, present and future
1. Embodied cognition, communication and the language faculty
Section II: The motor origin of language
2. Toward a Darwinian perspective on language evolution
MAURIZIO GENTILUCCI AND GIOVANNA CRISTINA CAMPIONE
Section III: Action in language processing
4. Motor representation and language in space, object and movement perception
YANN COELLO AND CHRISTEL BIDET-ILDEI
5. Embodied lexical representations: Flexible tools for predicting the future
SHIRLEY-ANN RUESCHEMEYER AND HAROLD BEKKERING
6. Language comprehension: Action, affordances and goals
7. Fault-tolerant comprehension
LAWRENCE J. TAYLOR AND ROLF A. ZWAAN
Section IV: Action in language acquisition
JEAN-LUC VELAY AND MARIEKE LONGCAMP
9. Children’s use of spatial reference frames in verbal and non-verbal tasks
JESSIE BULLENS, NINA LIENENKÄMPER, FRANK WIJNEN AND ALBERT POSTMA
Section V: Action in spatial language and numbers
10. Functional effects in spatial language
JARED E. MILLER AND LAURA A. CARLSON
11. On the mapping between spatial language and the vision and action systems
12. The spatial mapping of numbers: Its origin and flexibility
MASAMI ISHIHARA, YVES ROSSETTI, PETER E. KELLER AND WOLFGANG PRINZ
Section VI: Language and action within the brain
HEIDI STIEGLITZ HAM AND ANGELA BARTOLO
16. When words trigger activity in the brain’s sensory and motor systems: It is not remembrance of things past
TATJANA A. NAZIR, RAPHAËL FARGIER, PIA ARAVENA AND VÉRONIQUE BOULENGER
Section VII: Language and action in cognitive neuroscience: A final note