Stephen J Flusberg

A connectionist approach to embodied conceptual metaphor.

Frontiers in Psychology 2010 Stephen J Flusberg, Paul H Thibodeau, Daniel A Sternberg et al.

A growing body of data has been gathered in support of the view that the mind is embodied and that cognition is grounded in sensory-motor processes. Some researchers have gone so far as to claim that this paradigm poses a serious challenge to central tenets of cognitive science, including the widely held view that the mind can be analyzed in terms of abstract computational principles. On the...