Larry Barsalou - Habits of Mind
Mind & Life
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The Grounded Perspective on Cognition
Until recently, it was assumed that we have these relatively abstract and what various people have called amodal representations. And basically what the grounded perspective added to all this was to say that cognition is not a self contained unit. The idea would be that these color wordsin these concepts, in the cognitive system, are being implemented to some extent by representations out in the med ities. People thought this was the craziest thing that couldn't possibly be correct.
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