Insights into embodied cognition and mental imagery from aphantasia

EJ Muraki, LJ Speed, PM Pexman - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Mental representations allow humans to think about, remember and communicate about an
infinite number of concepts. A key question within cognitive psychology is how the mind …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus paper: Current perspectives on abstract concepts and future research directions

B Banks, AM Borghi, R Fargier, C Fini… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract concepts are relevant to a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science,
linguistics, psychology, cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience, and philosophy. This …

Alfworld: Aligning text and embodied environments for interactive learning

M Shridhar, X Yuan, MA Côté, Y Bisk… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Given a simple request like Put a washed apple in the kitchen fridge, humans can reason in
purely abstract terms by imagining action sequences and scoring their likelihood of success …

Scalable cognitive modelling: Putting Simon's (1969) ant back on the beach.

BT Johns, RK Jamieson, MN Jones - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
L'objectif classique de la modélisation cognitive est l'intégration du processus et de la
représentation pour développer des théories complètes de la cognition humaine (Estes …

Multi-dimensional sensorimotor grounding of concrete and abstract categories

B Banks, L Connell - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semantic categories, and the concepts belonging to them, have commonly been defined by
their relative concreteness, that is, their reliance on perception. However, sensorimotor …

Skeuomorphic or flat? The effects of icon style on visual search and recognition performance

Z Shen, T Chen, Y Wang, M Li, J Chen, Z Hu - Displays, 2024 - Elsevier
Although there have been many previous studies on icon visual search and recognition
performance, only a few have considered the effects of both the internal and external …

Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition

C Wingfield, L Connell - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The distributional pattern of words in language forms the basis of linguistic distributional
knowledge and contributes to conceptual processing, yet many questions remain regarding …

Sensorimotor distance: A grounded measure of semantic similarity for 800 million concept pairs

C Wingfield, L Connell - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
Experimental design and computational modelling across the cognitive sciences often rely
on measures of semantic similarity between concepts. Traditional measures of semantic …

The aesthetic emotion Lexicon: A literature review of emotion words used by researchers to describe aesthetic experiences

E Schubert - Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The emotions that can be considered members of the set of Aesthetic Emotions (AEs) is
controversial. The present study investigated the terms used by researchers in peer …

Category production norms for 117 concrete and abstract categories

B Banks, L Connell - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
We present a database of category production (aka semantic fluency) norms collected in the
UK for 117 categories (67 concrete and 50 abstract). Participants verbally named as many …