The Minimalist Grammar of Action. A formal specification of the structure of action, which employs the Chomskyan generative transformation grammar paradigm and is corroborated by neurobiological evidence. A minimal set of production rules in the sensorimotor domain in which the tool and affected object complements of an action have a primary role can be employed to produce any -and only feasible-  goal-directed action. Recursion, merge and move apply not only in human language, but in human action too.

The PRAXICON Semantic Memory. A dynamic, recursive and referential semantic network with biological basis. Nodes in the PRAXICON may have a physical or abstract reference pertaining to entities, movements and features with multiple representations (symbolic, perceptual, motoric). It’s an embodied knowledge graph; associations are simple or recursive in nature and pertain to a finite set of pragmatic relation types. Stay tuned for the full release of the network (5K concepts, 15K associations, in English, Greek & French)!

The COSMOROE Cross Modal Relations. A Framework for modeling the semantic interplay between different means of expression, when formulating multimodal messages. Verbal and perceptual representations of objects, agents, movements, gestures, events, and abstract concepts engage into a semantic interplay that ranges from simple one-to-one equivalence relations to forced equivalence (metonymic and metaphoric cases), contradiction, and complementarity.

The Poeticon Lithic Tools Multimodal Object Affordances Dataset. A Nature-published, large scale dataset on object affordances which resulted from a series of naturalistic cognitive experiments. Lithic tools as stimuli and a thinking aloud method elicited 95 hours of spontaneous speech from 120 participants comprising semantic information on object features, affordances and related arguments (justification, analogies etc.), as well as a rich set of pantomimes, gestures & exploratory acts.