{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. |
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Keywords: | conceptual knowledge, grounding |
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