Over the last decades a divide seems to have emerged in the cognitive sciences between embodied and symbolic approaches to language understanding. Embodied approaches …
MM Louwerse - Handbook of latent semantic analysis, 2007 - books.google.com
Over the last decade, the debate regarding embodied versus symbolic representations in language comprehension has dominated areas within the cognitive sciences (Barsalou …
OV Horchak, JC Giger, M Cabral… - Cognitive Systems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent findings in psychology, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience present a challenge to current amodal theories by suggesting that cognitive states are not disembodied in …
DA Weiskopf - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2010 - Elsevier
Traditionally, the language faculty was supposed to be a device that maps linguistic inputs to semantic or conceptual representations. These representations themselves were supposed …
What role does people's embodied experiences have in their use and understanding of meaning? Most theories in cognitive science view meaning in terms of propositional …
M Ostarek, F Huettig - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Twenty years after Barsalou's seminal perceptual-symbols article, embodied cognition, the notion that cognition involves simulations of sensory, motor, or affective states, has moved …
MM Louwerse - Topics in cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Debates on meaning and cognition suggest that an embodied cognition account is exclusive of a symbolic cognition account. Decades of research in the cognitive sciences have …
Background knowledge is essential for understanding. Our question concerns the nature of that knowledge: Is background knowledge solely descriptive and abstract, that is, consisting …
RA Zwaan, CJ Madden - … cognition: The role of perception and …, 2005 - books.google.com
There are two views of cognition in general and of language comprehension in particular. According to the traditional view (Chomsky, 1957; Fodor, 1983; Pylyshyn, 1986), the human …