Theresa S S Schilhab

Words as cultivators of others minds.

Frontiers in Psychology November 5, 2015 Theresa S S Schilhab

The embodied-grounded view of cognition and language holds that sensorimotor experiences in the form of 're-enactments' or 'simulations' are significant to the individual's development of concepts and competent language use. However, a typical objection to the explanatory force of this view is that, in everyday life, we engage in linguistic exchanges about much more than might be directly...