| Vorliegende Sprache |
eng |
| Hinweise auf parallele Ausgaben |
1796328995 Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe): ‡Dove, Guy: Abstract concepts and the embodied mind |
| ISBN |
978-0-19-006197-5 |
| Name |
Dove, Guy ¬[VerfasserIn]¬ |
| T I T E L |
Abstract concepts and the embodied mind |
| Zusatz zum Titel |
rethinking grounded cognition |
| Verlagsort |
New York, NY |
| Verlag |
Oxford University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr |
[2022] |
| 2022 |
| Umfang |
1 Online-Ressource (x, 266 pages) |
| Reihe |
Oxford scholarship online |
| Titelhinweis |
Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe): ‡Dove, Guy: Abstract concepts and the embodied mind |
| ISBN |
ISBN 978-0-19-006200-2 |
| Klassifikation |
153 |
| 153 |
| BF311 |
| Kurzbeschreibung |
We appear to think about the world by means of the same mechanisms that we use to experience it. Yet, abstract concepts like 'democracy,' 'fermion,' 'piety,' 'truth,' and 'zero' represent a clear challenge to this idea. In Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind, Guy Dove contends that abstract concepts are heterogeneous and pose three important challenges to embodied cognition. They force us to ask: How do we generalize beyond the specifics of our experience? How do we think about things that we do not experience directly? How do we adapt our thoughts to specific contexts and tasks? He further argues that a successful theory of grounding must embrace multimodal representations, hierarchical architecture, and linguistic scaffolding. |
| 2. Kurzbeschreibung |
"Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the dogs, and how we are going to survive our next visit with our family, we need to know something about locations, keys, cooking, dogs, survival, families, and so on. This book examines how our brains can store and access such general knowledge about the world and our place in it. More specifically, it investigates the neurocognitive mechanisms responsible for encoding our concepts. Sorting objects, events, and experiences into categories enables us to recall and use information that we have gathered over time. Stored information about these categories helps us make decisions, communicate, and respond in an intelligent way to changing circumstances. Our concepts serve as the building blocks for many forms of thinking. We use them to recognize patterns, draw inferences, make decisions, and understand word meanings. Concepts are bodies of knowledge that are quickly accessed in various situations (Machery, 2009; Margolis & Laurence, 1999; Murphy, 2002)"-- |
| SWB-Titel-Idn |
1809929636 |
| Signatur |
E-Book Oxford EBS |
| Bemerkungen |
Elektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz |
| Elektronische Adresse |
$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190061975.001.0001 |
| Internetseite / Link |
Volltext |
| Siehe auch |
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