Claudia Mazzuca
List of John Benjamins publications for which Claudia Mazzuca plays a role.
Article
2019 Chapter 2. Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 43–58 | Chapter
Embodied and grounded approaches to cognition have compellingly demonstrated that we comprehend concrete words simulating their meaning through our sensorimotor system (Barsalou 2008). Abstract words, i.e., words that do not have a single and concrete referent, are more difficult to account for in… read more