{Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems.}
| Type of publication: | Article |
| Citation: | Barsalou2003a |
| Journal: | Trends in cognitive sciences |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Month: | February |
| Pages: | 84--91 |
| ISSN: | 1879-307X |
| URL: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... |
| Abstract: | The human conceptual system contains knowledge that supports all cognitive activities, including perception, memory, language and thought. According to most current theories, states in modality-specific systems for perception, action and emotion do not represent knowledge - rather, redescriptions of these states in amodal representational languages do. Increasingly, however, researchers report that re-enactments of states in modality-specific systems underlie conceptual processing. In behavioral experiments, perceptual and motor variables consistently produce effects in conceptual tasks. In brain imaging experiments, conceptual processing consistently activates modality-specific brain areas. Theoretical research shows how modality-specific re-enactments could produce basic conceptual functions, such as the type-token distinction, categorical inference, productivity, propositions and abstract concepts. Together these empirical results and theoretical analyses implicate modality-specific systems in the representation and use of conceptual knowledge. |
| Userfields: | bdsk-url-1={http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12584027}, date-added={2012-08-21 14:16:29 +0200}, date-modified={2012-08-21 14:16:29 +0200}, file={:Users/ana-maria/Desktop/Image Schemata/BarsalouEtAl03.pdf:pdf}, pmid={12584027}, project={fremdliteratur}, |
| Keywords: | conceptual knowledge, grounding |
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