Where does embodied cognition come from?
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GENERAL PREPARATION for Brain Language Part
These texts are recommended reading for gaining required background knowledge:
Rizzolatti, G., & Arbib, M. A. (1998). Language within our grasp. Trends in Neurosciences, 21(5), 188-194.
Pulvermüller, F., & Fadiga, L. (2010). Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language. Nat Rev Neurosci, 11(5),351-360
Pulvermüller, F., Moseley, R., Egorova, N., Shebani, Z., & Boulenger, V.(2014). Motor cognition - motor semantics: Action-perception theory of cognitive and communicative cortical function. Neuropsychologia, 55, 71-84. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.002