GROUNDING COGNITION: THE ROLE OF PERCEPTION AND ACTION IN MEMORY, LANGUAGE, AND THINKING; ED. BY DIANE PECHER

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. Object Concepts And Action / Anna M. Borghi -- Constraints On Spatial Language Comprehension : Function And Geometry / Laura A. Carlson And Ryan Kenny -- Embodiment In Metaphorical Imagination / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Passionate Thoughts : The Emotional Embodiment Of Moral Concepts / Jesse J. Prinz -- Grounding Language In Bodily States : The Case For Emotion / Arthur M. Glenberg [and Others] -- Situating Abstract Concepts / Lawrence W. Barsalou And Katja Wiemer-hastings -- Dynamicity, Fictivity, And Scanning : The Imaginative Basis Of Logic And Linguistic Meaning / Ronald W. Langacker -- The Emergence Of Grammar From Perspective / Brian Macwhinney -- Embodied Sentence Comprehension / Rolf A. Zwaan And Carol J. Madden -- On The Perceptual-motor And Image-schematic Infrastructure Of Language / Michael J. Spivey [and Others] -- Connecting Concepts To Each Other And The World / Robert L. Goldstone, Ying Feng, And Brian J. Rogosky. Edited By Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. 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 can be shown to rely on more concrete, embodied experiences. Finally, language itself can be shown to be grounded in sensorimotor processes. This book brings together theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from several key researchers in this field to support this framework One of the key questions in cognitive psychology is how people represent knowledge about concepts such as football or love. 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 developments 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 can be shown to rely on more concrete, embodied experiences. Finally, language itself can be shown to be grounded in sensorimotor processes. This book brings together theoretical arguments and empirical evidence from several key researchers in this field to support this framework. Having established that memory and language are embodied rather than amodal, researchers are starting to focus on developing more detailed theories of exactly how perception and action are involved in memory, language, and thought. The purpose of this book is to bring together views from various experts on these topics Fifty years of research in cognitive science have demonstrated that the study of cognition is essential for a scientific understanding of human behavior.

this Book Directly Addresses The Role Of Grounding And Embodiment In Memory, Language And Thought.