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kant on the embodied cognition

Embodied sentence comprehension 1 EMBODIED SENTENCE COMPREHENSION

ions are being discussed in other chapters in this book (Barsalou & WiemerHastings, this volume; Gibbs, this volume; Prinz, this volume). 6.0 Conclusion and outlook We started this chapter by comparing two perspectives on cognition in general and on language comprehension in particular. According to the traditional perspective, language comprehension involves the activation and integration of d...

Archives – draft

The email archives that people accumulate are a dense, complex, and highly personal record of their past interactions. As email becomes increasingly ubiquitous, these include not only their work interactions, but also their relationships with family members, friends, doctors, teachers, etc. However, current mail clients do little to support these archives beyond providing a basic filing and sea...

The Eugenics Society archives in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

The Eugenics Society's archives were among the earliest collections acquired by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, in February 1980, just over a year after its inauguration. At that time the collection consisted only of correspondence and other files, the minutes and press-cuttings books being retained by the Society and consultable there by appointment with the General Secretary. In spi...

Embodied understanding

Western culture has inherited a view of understanding as an intellectual cognitive operation of grasping of concepts and their relations. However, cognitive science research has shown that this received intellectualist conception is substantially out of touch with how humans actually make and experience meaning. The view emerging from the mind sciences recognizes that understanding is profoundl...