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Grounding Cognition 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. 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. Diane Pecher is assistant professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). She received a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. Her dissertation Dynamics of Semantic Memory was supervised by Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers. Her research is funded by a grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). Rolf A. Zwaan is Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 1992 and is the author of more than 60 scientific publications. His journal publications include articles in Psychological Science, Cognition, and Psychological Bulletin. His research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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Edited by DIANE PECHER Erasmus University Rotterdam
ROLF A. ZWAAN Florida State University
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1. Introduction to Grounding Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking Diane Pecher and Rolf A. Zwaan 2. Object Concepts and Action Anna M. Borghi 3. Constraints on Spatial Language Comprehension: Function and Geometry Laura A. Carlson and Ryan Kenny 4. Embodiment in Metaphorical Imagination Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
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5. Passionate Thoughts: The Emotional Embodiment of Moral Concepts Jesse J. Prinz 6. Grounding Language in Bodily States: The Case for Emotion Arthur M. Glenberg, David Havas, Raymond Becker, and Mike Rinck 7. Situating Abstract Concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou and Katja Wiemer-Hastings 8. Dynamicity, Fictivity, and Scanning: The Imaginative Basis of Logic and Linguistic Meaning Ronald W. Langacker 9. The Emergence of Grammar from Perspective Brian MacWhinney 10. Embodied Sentence Comprehension Rolf A. Zwaan and Carol J. Madden
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11. On the Perceptual-Motor and Image-Schematic Infrastructure of Language Michael J. Spivey, Daniel C. Richardson, and Monica Gonzalez-Marquez 12. Connecting Concepts to Each Other and the World Robert L. Goldstone, Ying Feng, and Brian J. Rogosky Author Index Subject Index
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Lawrence W. Barsalou, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Raymond Becker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Anna M. Borghi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Laura A. Carlson, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Ying Feng, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA Arthur M. Glenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Robert L. Goldstone, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA David Havas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Ryan Kenny, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Ronald W. Langacker, University of California, San Diego, California, USA Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Carol J. Madden, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Diane Pecher, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Jesse J. Prinz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Daniel C. Richardson, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA vii
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Mike Rinck, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany Brian J. Rogosky, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Michael J. Spivey, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Katja Wiemer-Hastings, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA Rolf A. Zwaan, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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