Explains the relationship between brain activity involved during movement and after being exposed to "action words". Words related to body parts (action words) activate similar parts of the brain as when those body parts move (i.e. kick and foot movement or lick and tongue movement). 

Semantic somatotopy

Located in the premotor cortex. They are highly specialized to respond to specific stimuli. If a similar stimuli is encountered again the same neuron is activated.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

- mirror neurons 
- sensory neurons
- motor neurons 
- interneurons 

Types of neurons 

Our knowledge of concepts comes from the reactivation of neurons when we interact with them again.

Embodied approach

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

Mirror neurons

Located between sensory and motor neurons. They relay information from the spinal cord to the brain in order to perform motor activity.

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