Motor action and emotional memory

Motor action and emotional memory Casasanto, D., & Dijkstra, K. (2010). Motor action and emotional memory. Cognition, 115(1), 179-185.

Accord- ing to metaphor theories, smiling and standing tall facilitate positive memories and encourage positive evalu- ations in part because these bodily actions activate sche- matic representations of ‘upness’ that are, by hypothesis, integral to positive emotions.

habitually co-occur

According to a version of the embodiment hypothesis that makes testable psychological predictions (Barsalou, 1999), thinking consists in creating mental simulations of bodily experiences, in modality-specific regions of the brain.

McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and mind: What gestures reveal about thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.