Embodied Cognition and the Percept/Concept Distinction
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ed perceptual schemata. Through a process of selective attention that breaks down and abstracts perceptual traces into symbols, the schemata can come to represent abstractions like shapes independent of orientation. Further details on the abstraction mechanism are not provided. In his description of human conceptual processing, Barsalou invokes the concept of a "simulation": a dynamic reactivation and recombination of perceptual symbols in working memory. He stresses the active, productive nature of the perceptual system, in contrast to the "passive recording device" view. Because the schemata are componential and feature-like, they can be recombined in an infinite number of ways, accounting for the effectively infinite human conceptual capacity. In order to include action and affect as elements with which to ground meaning, Barsalou includes proprioception and introspection as "perceptual systems". Introspection provides the "perceptual" medium necessary for generating concepts referring to cognitive operations (e.g. "comparison") and emotional states. Barsalou’s system is much like a perceptual re-cast of a classical symbol-manipulation approach. The real difference, though, is that the symbols remain modal; instead of transducing perceptual input into amodal forms for processing in other parts of the brain, Barsalou contends that traces merely need to be "filtered down" into a schematic form, and processed entirely within the sensorimotor system.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998