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3 - Brain Embodiment of Category-Specific Semantic Memory Circuits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Gün R. Semin  and
Eliot R. Smith
By
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Gün R. Semin
Affiliation:
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam
Eliot R. Smith
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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Summary

At present, abstract symbolic and embodied theories of semantic and conceptual processing compete for the minds of cognitive scientists. Are concepts built in interaction with the world, from perceptual information? Or are they inborn and only in a very distant relationship with the “reality,” which contacts the thinking organs (if at all) only via long axons and unreliable sensory organs? Can an abstract thought be built from sensory experience – or would there rather be need for other ingredients to construct abstraction? These are questions that heated the debate in ancient Greece – (cf. Plato's and Aristotle's positions) – and are being warmed up in contemporary cognitive and brain science. Can we add anything new? We have a vast number of nice brain pictures to show – pictures that indicate brain parts active when people think, speak, listen, and understand. But a colored picture is not always easily converted into a thousand words, let alone a new insight. Here, the embodiment question will be addressed on the basis of new evidence from cognitive neuroscience in the hope that the brain pictures, especially the dynamic ones, might speak to the issues – or more modestly, might make a significant contribution to the cognitive debate.

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Embodied Grounding
Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscientific Approaches
 , pp. 71 - 97
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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