Grounding Cognition Pecher Zwaan Paperback Cambridge University Press
Grounding CognitionThe Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking\nAuthor(s): Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521168571, 978-0521168571\nSynopsis\nOne of the key questions in cognitive psychology is how people represent knowledge about concepts such as football or love. Some researchers have proposed that concepts are represented in human memory by the sensorimotor systems that underlie interaction with the outside world. These theories represent developments in cognitive science to view cognition no longer in terms of abstract information processing, but in terms of perception and action. In other words, cognition is grounded in embodied experiences. Studies show that sensory perception and motor actions support understanding of words and object concepts. Moreover, even understanding of abstract and emotion concepts can be shown to rely on mor.
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