@ARTICLE{26583223_1050612361_2025, 
	author = {Alina Karliukova and Jubin Abutalebi and Yury Shtyrov and Andriy Myachykov}, 
	keywords = {, emotive concepts, emotive semantics, emotions, affective abstract words, embodiment, grounding, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EML), eye-trackingskin conductance response (SCR)},
	title = {Embodied Lexical Semantics in a Second Language: A Neurocognitive Review},
	journal = {Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics},
	year = {2025},
	volume = {22},
	number = {2},
	pages = {362-375},
	url = {https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-2/1050612361.html},
	publisher = {},
	abstract = {Sensorimotor embodiment of emotional semantic representations in the second language (L2) has been largely studied through behavioral paradigms. However, most neuroscience research of embodied semantics has almost exclusively focused on the native language (L1). The representational architecture of emotive concepts (e.g., love, hate) in L2 has been explored from the neurocognitive perspective to a lesser degree. In this review, we first scrutinize emotive concepts highlighting their main embodied features and differences from other abstract (e.g., transformation, coherence) and concrete (e.g., hat, cat) concepts. We then analyse conceptualization of lexico-semantic representations indicating that L2 proficiency plays out differently in the development of embodied features for L2 emotive lexicon. Second, we examine behavioral research in the emotive concepts' domain both in exclusively L1 and in mono- and bilingual contexts. We then summarize the main neurocognitive evidence in processing emotive semantics in L1. Finally, we review the existing neurocognitive findings regarding embodied processing of emotive concepts in L2. Thus, we discuss evidence from several recent neuroimaging (i.e., fMRI, EEG), and physiological (i.e., EMG, eye-tracking) studies using healthy populations. These data provide evidence for the existence of embodied neural representations of emotive concepts in L2. However, these findings also suggest they are embodied differently than L1 words to a degree.},
	annote = {Sensorimotor embodiment of emotional semantic representations in the second language (L2) has been largely studied through behavioral paradigms. However, most neuroscience research of embodied semantics has almost exclusively focused on the native language (L1). The representational architecture of emotive concepts (e.g., love, hate) in L2 has been explored from the neurocognitive perspective to a lesser degree. In this review, we first scrutinize emotive concepts highlighting their main embodied features and differences from other abstract (e.g., transformation, coherence) and concrete (e.g., hat, cat) concepts. We then analyse conceptualization of lexico-semantic representations indicating that L2 proficiency plays out differently in the development of embodied features for L2 emotive lexicon. Second, we examine behavioral research in the emotive concepts' domain both in exclusively L1 and in mono- and bilingual contexts. We then summarize the main neurocognitive evidence in processing emotive semantics in L1. Finally, we review the existing neurocognitive findings regarding embodied processing of emotive concepts in L2. Thus, we discuss evidence from several recent neuroimaging (i.e., fMRI, EEG), and physiological (i.e., EMG, eye-tracking) studies using healthy populations. These data provide evidence for the existence of embodied neural representations of emotive concepts in L2. However, these findings also suggest they are embodied differently than L1 words to a degree.}
}