Authors: Brouillet T, Heurley L, Martin S, Brouillet D Most of the experiments which give theories of embodied cognition their empirical anchorage only take into consideration the motor responses induced by the task or the motor component of the visual stimulus. And yet, these motor responses are often associated with a linguistic answer. Our hypothesis is that "YES" and "NO" verbal responses have a motor component. In a first experiment we showed that producing a verbal response (YES vs. NO) involves motor planning (pushing vs. pulling): participants push a lever more quickly when they have to answer "yes" than "no", and conversely, they pull a lever more quickly when they have to answer "no" than "yes". Moreover, in a second experiment, we showed that perceiving the words "YES" and "...