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: 9780521834643

ISBN-10: 0521834643

ISBN-13: 9780521834643

Edition: 2005

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. 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…

Book details

List price: $102.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.276
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



Author Index


Subject Index