Grounding Cognition

The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking
Herausgeber: Pecher, Diane; Zwaan, Rolf A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book directly addresses the role of grounding and embodiment in memory, language and thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521168571
• ISBN-10: 0521168570
• Artikelnr.: 30976984

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; 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.; 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; 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; Indices.