This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka's poetics,
exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought …

Half a century ago, Donald Hebb posited that mental imagery is a constructive process that
emulates perception. Specifically, Hebb claimed that visual imagery results from the …

Look at a red apple. Now close your eyes and visualize this apple. Your perceptual state
and your imagery of the apple are very similar in some respects. They are also different in …

Many modern theories propose that perceptual information is represented by the
sensorimotor activity elicited by the original stimulus. Scanpath theory (Noton & Stark, 1971) …

First, we discuss issues raised with respect to the Theory of Event Coding (TEC)'s scope,
that is, its limitations and possible extensions. Then, we address the issue of specificity, that …

Dynamic conceptualization is a fundamental notion in cognitive linguistics. Abstract motion
is one type of dynamic conceptualization. It is said to structure descriptions of static scenes …

The eye independently evolved over 40 times in nature (Fernald 1997), yet, strikingly all
animals with developed visual systems actively control their gaze using eye or head …

В книге рассматривается вопрос о воздействии структуры языка на познавательные
способности его носителей, или проблема лингвистической относительности. В …

Because of the strong associations between verbal labels and the visual objects that they
denote, hearing a word may quickly guide the deployment of visual attention to the named …

Embodied theories of cognition propose that neural substrates used in experiencing the
referent of a word, for example perceiving upward motion, should be engaged in weaker …