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Research See my Google Scholar profile.   Interests how people form mental representations of the world around them how mental representations and conceptual thought are grounded or embodied how human conceptual thought emerges from the interplay of statistical linguistic and grounded simulation systems how language understanding is influenced by conceptual and perceptual representations how cognitive modelling can shed light on language and mental representations Projects Past and present research projects include: Language bootstraps cognitive complexity. Funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant programme (Connell: 2017-2022). If it looks like a duck: Emergent categorical structure in the human conceptual system. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust (Lynott, Connell, & Brysbaert: 2016-2018). Replication of Strack, Stepper & Martin's (1998) Facial Feedback Hypothesis. Funded by the Association for Psychological Science (Lynott & Connell: 2015-16). From mind to hand: Gesture and the spatial grounding of mental representations Funded by the Leverhulme Trust (Connell & Holler) Multimodal conceptual representations of size Funded by the British Academy (Connell & Lynott) Modality-specific representations in conceptual combination Funded by the ESRC (Connell & Lynott) The role of perceptual modalities in conceptual processing Funded by the ESRC (Connell)