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020 _a9780199217274
028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.
_b;7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002
_c;1099652
_d;09/08/2019
082 _a153 VEG
100 _aManuel de Vega
_a; Arthur M Glenberg
_a; Arthur C Graesser
245 _aSymbols and embodiment
_b : debates on meaning and cognition
_c/Manuel de Vega
260 _aOxford ; New York
_b: Oxford University Press
_c, 2008.
300 _aviii, 445 pages
_c; 26 cm
365 _b6052
505 _a Framing the debate / Arthur M Glenberg, Manuel de Vega, and Arthur C Graesser -- The limits of covariation / Arthur M Glenberg and Sarita Mehta -- Body and symbol in AutoTutor : conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states / Arthur C Graesser and G Tanner Jackson -- Symbolism, embodied cognition, and the broader debate / Lawrence Shapiro -- What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning / Marcel Adam Just -- Grounding language in the brain / Friedemann Pulvermüller -- Symbols and embodiment from the perspective of a neural modeller / Andreas Knoblauch -- Symbol systems and perceptual representations / Walter Kintsch -- Experiential traces and mental simulations in language comprehension / Rolf A Zwann -- Defining embodiment in understanding / Anthony J Sanford -- A mechanistic model of three facets of meaning / Deb Roy -- The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what's next? / Luc Steels -- Language and simulation in conceptual processing / Lawrence W Barsalou [and others] -- Levels of embodied meaning : from pointing to counterfactuals / Manuel de Vega -- Language comprehension is both embodied and symbolic / Max Louwerse and Patrick Jeuniaux -- A well grounded education : the role of perception in science and mathematics / Robert Goldstone, David Landy, and Ji Y Son -- Mending or abandoning cognitivism? / Antoni Gomila -- An embodied cognition perspective on symbols, gesture, and grounding instruction / Mitchell J Nathan -- Reflecting on the debate / Manuel de Vega, Arthur C Graesser, and Arthur M Glenberg.
520 _a Some cognitive scientists think the mind works like a computer, involving programs composed of abstract and arbitrary symbols. Others think cognition is embodied - based on perceptual and emotional experience. This book is a rare collaboration between scientists holding both viewpoints, in an attempt to better understand the mind.
650 _aPhilosophy
655 _a;Cognitive science
_b;Human information processing
700 _aArthur M Glenberg
700 _a; Arthur C Graesser
942 _cBOOK