Challenges and opportunities for grounding cognition

LW Barsalou - Journal of Cognition, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts

AM Borghi, L Barca, F Binkofski, C Castelfranchi… - Physics of life …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

Decoding the information structure underlying the neural representation of concepts

L Fernandino, JQ Tong, LL Conant… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The nature of the representational code underlying conceptual knowledge remains a major
unsolved problem in cognitive neuroscience. We assessed the extent to which different …

Toward a brain-based componential semantic representation

JR Binder, LL Conant, CJ Humphries… - Cognitive …, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

Systematic literature reviews in engineering education and other develo** interdisciplinary fields

M Borrego, MJ Foster, JE Froyd - Journal of Engineering …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background In fields such as medicine, psychology, and education, systematic reviews of
the literature critically appraise and summarize research to inform policy and practice. We …

[HTML][HTML] Neural reuse of action perception circuits for language, concepts and communication

F Pulvermüller - Progress in neurobiology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

[HTML][HTML] How neurons make meaning: brain mechanisms for embodied and abstract-symbolic semantics

F Pulvermüller - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013‏ - cell.com
How brain structures and neuronal circuits mechanistically underpin symbolic meaning has
recently been elucidated by neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neurocomputational …

Putting concepts into context

E Yee, SL Thompson-Schill - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2016‏ - Springer
At first glance, conceptual representations (eg, our internal notion of the object “lemon”)
seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon …

The neural representation of abstract words: the role of emotion

G Vigliocco, ST Kousta, PA Della Rosa… - Cerebral …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
It is generally assumed that abstract concepts are linguistically coded, in line with imaging
evidence of greater engagement of the left perisylvian language network for abstract than …

GRAPES—Grounding representations in action, perception, and emotion systems: How object properties and categories are represented in the human brain

A Martin - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2016‏ - Springer
In this article, I discuss some of the latest functional neuroimaging findings on the
organization of object concepts in the human brain. I argue that these data provide strong …