Daniel A Weiskopf

Embodied cognition and linguistic comprehension.

Studies in history and philosophy of science September 1, 2010 Daniel A Weiskopf

Traditionally, the language faculty was supposed to be a device that maps linguistic inputs to semantic or conceptual representations. These representations themselves were supposed to be distinct from the representations manipulated by the hearer's perceptual and motor systems. Recently this view of language has been challenged by advocates of embodied cognition. Drawing on empirical studies...