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Title Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking / edited by Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations
Contents Object concepts and action / Anna M. Borghi -- Constraints on spatial language comprehension : function and geometry / Laura A. Carlson, Ryan Kenny -- Embodiment in metaphorical imagination / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Passionate thoughts : the emotional embodiment of moral concepts / Jesse J. Prinz -- Grounding language in bodily states : the case for emotion / Arthur M. Glenberg [and others] -- Situating abstract concepts / Lawrence W. Barsalou, Katja Wiemer-Hastings -- Dynamicity, fictivity, and scanning : the imaginative basis of logic and linguistic meaning / Ronald W. Langacker -- The emergence of grammar from perspective / Brian MacWhinney -- Embodied sentence comprehension / Rolf A. Zwaan, Carol J. Madden -- On the perceptual-motor and image-schematic infrastructure of language / Michael J. Spivey [and others] -- Connecting concepts to each other and the world / Robert L. Goldstone, Ying Feng, Brian J. Rogosky
Summary One of the key questions in cognitive psychology is how people represent knowledge about concepts such as football or love. Recently some researchers have proposed that concepts are represented in human memory by the sensorimotor systems that underlie interaction with the outside world. These theories represent a recent development in cognitive science to view cognition no longer in terms of abstract information processing, but in terms of perception and action. In other words, cognition is grounded in embodied experiences. Studies show that sensory perception and motor actions support understanding of words and object concepts. Moreover, even understanding of abstract and emotion concepts can be shown to rely on more concrete, embodied experiences. Finally, language itself can be shown to be grounded in sensorimotor processes. This book brings together theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from several key researchers in this field to support this framework
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cognitive science.
Mind and body.
Psychophysiology.
Linguistics.
Psychomotor Performance
Psychophysiology
Linguistics
linguistics.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
Cognitive science
Mind and body
Form Electronic book
Author Pecher, Diane.
Zwaan, Rolf A.
LC no. 2004016031
ISBN 9780511499968
0511499965
0511082142
9780511082146
1280421894
9781280421891
9786610421893
6610421897