Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking / edited by Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pecher, Diane, 1966-

Zwaan, Rolf A., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Contents:

1 Introduction to Grounding Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking / Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan 1

2 Object Concepts and Action / Anna M. Borghi 8

3 Constraints on Spatial Language Comprehension: Function and Geometry / Laura A. Carlson, Ryan Kenny 35

4 Embodiment in Metaphorical Imagination / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 65

5 Passionate Thoughts: The Emotional Embodiment of Moral Concepts / Jesse J. Prinz 93

6 Grounding Language in Bodily States: The Case for Emotion / Arthur M. Glenberg, David Havas, Raymond Becker, Mike Rinck 115

7 Situating Abstract Concepts / Lawrence W. Barsalou, Katja Wiemer-Hastings 129

8 Dynamicity, Fictivity, and Scanning: The Imaginative Basis of Logic and Linguistic Meaning / Ronald W. Langacker 164

9 The Emergence of Grammar from Perspective / Brian MacWhinney 198

10 Embodied Sentence Comprehension / Rolf A. Zwaan, Carol J. Madden 224

11 On the Perceptual-Motor and Image-Schematic Infrastructure of Language / Michael J. Spivey, Daniel C. Richardson, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez 246

12 Connecting Concepts to Each Other and the World / Robert L. Goldstone, Ying Feng, Brian J. Rogosky 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0521834643

OCLC:

56058240

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