AUTHOR=Kacinik Natalie A. TITLE=Sticking your neck out and burying the hatchet: what idioms reveal about embodied simulation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=8 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00689 DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2014.00689 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=
Idioms are used in conventional language twice as frequently as metaphors, but most research, particularly recent work on embodiment has focused on the latter. However, idioms have the potential to significantly deepen our understanding of embodiment because their meanings cannot be derived from their component words. To determine whether sensorimotor states could activate idiomatic meaning, participants were instructed to engage in postures/actions reflecting various idioms (e.g.,