Larry Barsalou - Habits of Mind
Mind & Life
What Is Grounded Cognition?
Your work has been really foundational in cognitive science and the ways that om scientists have come to think about how the mind works. And a lot of that is based in a theory called grounded cognition, which is very different from the way that scientist used to think about the mind. So could you describe am grounded cognition? Sure, i'd be glad to um it might help to put grounded cognition in its larger context. M,. so i'll go back to the beginning of scientific psychology, which was the late 18 hundred's, early 19 hundreds. Prior to that point, the mind had been largely examined trough philosophy. But at the same time, this computational account during that period viewed cognition as a
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