Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and
action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is …

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …

Findings in the social psychology literatures on attitudes, social perception, and emotion
demonstrate that social information processing involves embodiment, where embodiment …

The human conceptual system contains knowledge that supports all cognitive activities,
including perception, memory, language and thought. According to most current theories …

Four theories of the human conceptual system—semantic memory, exemplar models, feed‐
forward connectionist nets, and situated simulation theory—are characterised and …

1. Words activate brain regions that are close to or overlap with brain areas that are active
during perception of or actions involving the words' referents (Isenberg et al., 1999; Martin & …

Theories of cognition often assume that a single type of rep1esentation underlies
knowledge.. Traditionally, most theories have assumed that amodal symbols provide …

It has been proposed that the capacity to code the 'like me'analogy between self and others
constitutes a basic prerequisite and a starting point for social cognition. It is by means of this …

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other
species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique …