Since the end of the last century, the problem of consciousness has come to the fore in the world science. The unresolved nature of this problem until today is connected with the insurmountability of the “border” between phenomenal and psychological (cognitive) consciousness. One of the directions for solving this problem is connected with the provision on the existence of different languages...
Human beings are assumed to own a concept of their self, but it remains a mystery how they represent themselves and others. I shall develop a theoretical framework, inspired by the Theory of Event Coding, of how people represent themselves and others, how and under which circumstances these two kinds of representations interact and what consequences this has. In a nutshell, I shall argue that...
Embodied cognition frameworks suggest a direct link between sensorimotor experience and cognitive representations of concepts ( Shapiro, 2011 ). We examined whether this holds also true for concepts that cannot be directly perceived with the sensorimotor system (i.e., temporal concepts). To test this, participants learned object-space (Exp. 1) or object-time (Exp. 2) associations. Afterwards,...