Chinese character satiation is a phenomenon whereby prolonged or repeated inspection induces a compelling subjective experience of structural disintegration. Yet, objective neurophysiological evidence for the proposed mechanism of orthographic decomposition has remained elusive. The present study employed representational similarity analysis (RSA) on electroencephalography (EEG) data to bridge...
The embodied cognition approach to the study of the mind proposes that higher order mental processes such as concept formation and language are essentially based on perceptual and motor processes. Contrary to the classical approach in cognitive science, in which concepts are viewed as amodal, arbitrary symbols, embodied semantics argues that concepts must be "grounded" in sensorimotor...