Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking /

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 theori...

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Otros Autores: Pecher, Diane, 1966-, Zwaan, Rolf A., 1962-
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.