“…Over the past decade, the cognitive sciences have seen an abundance of empirical work supporting theories of embodied cognition (Barsalou, 2005; Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006). Within the domain of language comprehension, several studies have demonstrated that readers show evidence for mentally simulating described emotions, actions, and visual, tactile, and auditory perceptions (Brunyé et al, 2012; Brunyé, Ditman, Mahoney, Walters, & Taylor, 2010; Gernsbacher et al, 1992; Gunraj, Drumm-Hewitt, & Klin, 2014; Kurby, Magliano, & Rapp, 2009). Much of this research, however, either directly addresses the participant as the performer of an action or perceiver of a stimulus (e.g., You kicked the ball.…”