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Index
Cover
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Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
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
3. From action to speech
Section III: Action in language processing
4. Motor representation and language in space, object and movement perception
5. Embodied lexical representations: Flexible tools for predicting the future
6. Language comprehension: Action, affordances and goals
7. Fault-tolerant comprehension
Section IV: Action in language acquisition
8. Motor skills and written language perception: Contribution of writing knowledge to visual recognition of graphic shapes
9. Children’s use of spatial reference frames in verbal and non-verbal tasks
Section V: Action in spatial language and numbers
10. Functional effects in spatial language
11. On the mapping between spatial language and the vision and action systems
12. The spatial mapping of numbers: Its origin and flexibility
13. Horizontal spatial representations of number and time: Continuous number and categorical time lines
Section VI: Language and action within the brain
14. Embodied semantics for language related to actions: A review of fMRI and neuropsychological research
15. The relationship between gesture and language in brain-damaged patients and individuals with autism
16. When words trigger activity in the brain’s sensory and motor systems: It is not remembrance of things past
Section VII: Language and action in cognitive neuroscience: A final note
17. Contribution of the action system to language perception and comprehension: Evidence and controversies
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