In this book the author's theoretical framework builds on linguistic and psychological
research, arguing that similar image-schematic notions should be grouped together into …

Formal knowledge representation struggles to represent the dynamic changes within
complex events in a cognitively plausible way. Image schemas, on the other hand, are …

Commonsense knowledge is a broad and challenging area of research which investigates
our understanding of the world as well as human assumptions about reality. Deriving directly …

Embodied cognition and the theory of cognitive metaphors ground our commonsense
reasoning ability in language, linking subjective perception of the external world with …

The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the
representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for …

The focus of our study is the rhetorical figure litotes and its cognitive modeling. This figure is
formed by a contrary term that emphatically accentuates a positive, eg He is not exactly an …

Commonsense knowledge is a broad and challenging area of research which investigates
our understanding of the world as well as human assumptions about reality. Deriving directly …

One of the problems an agent faces when operating in a partially known, dynamic,
sometimes unpredictable environment is to keep track of aspects of the world relevant to its …

Values are beliefs or principles that are deemed significant or desirable within a specific
society or culture, serving as the fundamental underpinnings for ethical and socio …

With their potential to map experiental structures from the sensorimotor to the abstract
cognitive realm, image schemas are believed to provide an embodied grounding to our …