multimodal, in that both data and hypotheses can have a full range of verbal and sensory representations, involving words, sights, images, smells, etc., but also kinesthetic experiences and other feelings such as pain, and thus all sensory modalities. The presence of kinesthetic aspects plainly demonstrates that abductive reasoning is basically manipulative. Again, both linguistic and non linguistic signs have an intrinsic semiotic life, as particular configurations of neural networks and chemical distributions (and in terms of their transformations) at the level of human brains, and as somatic expressions. However they can also be delegated to many external objects and devices, for example written texts, diagrams, artifacts, etc. We can also see, in this regard, how unconscious factors take part in the abductive procedure, which consequently acquires the character of a kind of "thinking through doing"." /> Neuro-multimodal abduction - Magnani Lorenzo | sdvig press