Grounding Cognition The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking

Name: Grounding Cognition The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking
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ISBN: 9780521168571

ISBN-10: 0521168570

ISBN-13: 9780521168571

Edition: 2010

Authors: Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan

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One of the key questions in cognitive psychology is how people represent knowledge about concepts such as football or love. This text brings together theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from key researchers in the field.

Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of contributors



Introduction to Grounding Cognition: the Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking




Object concepts and action




Constraints on spatial language comprehension: function and geometry




Embodiment in metaphorical imagination




Passionate thoughts: the emotional embodiment of moral concepts




Grounding language in bodily states: the case for emotion




Situating abstract concepts




Dynamicity, fictivity, and scanning: the imaginative basis of logic and linguistic meaning




The emergence of grammar from perspective




Embodied sentence comprehension




On the perceptual-motor and image-schematic infrastructure of language




Connecting concepts to each other and the world



Indices