Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking / edited by Diane Pecher and Rolf A. Zwaan.
"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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "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 human understanding of words and object concepts. This book brings together theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from several key researchers in this field to support this framework."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511081693 9780511081699 0511082142 9780511082146 0511171390 9780511171390 0511499965 9780511499968 1280421894 9781280421891 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511499968 |