Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Embodied Information Processing -- 1 The Mystery of Embodied Language -- 2 The Information Processing Perspective -- 3 Computational Models -- II How the Brain Computes -- 4 Neurons and Other Cells -- 5 The Society of Neurons -- 6 Nature and Nurture -- III How the Mind Computes -- 7 Connections in the Mind -- 8 Embodied Concepts and Their Words -- 9 The Computational Bridge -- IV Learning Concrete Words -- 10 First Words -- 11 Conceptual Schemas and Cultural Frames -- 12 Learning Spatial Relation Words -- V Learning Words for Actions -- 13 Embodied Knowledge of Actions -- 14 Learning Action Words -- VI Abstract and Metaphorical Words -- 15 Conceptual Systems -- 16 Metaphor and Meaning -- 17 Understanding as Simulation -- VII Understanding Stories -- 18 The Structure of Action and Events -- 19 Belief and Inference -- 20 Understanding News Stories -- VIII Combining Form and Meaning -- 21 Combining Forms-Grammar -- 22 The Language Wars -- 23 Combining Meanings-Embodied Construction Grammar -- IX Embodied Language -- 24 Embodied Language Understanding -- 25 Learning Constructions -- 26 Remaining Mysteries -- 27 All Together Now -- References and Further Reading -- Index.