Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on meaning and cognition - Rilegato

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9780199217274: Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on meaning and cognition

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ISBN 10: 0199217270 ISBN 13: 9780199217274

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

Cognitive scientists have a variety of approaches to studying cognition: experimental psychology, computer science, robotics, neuroscience, educational psychology, philosophy of mind, and psycholinguistics, to name but a few. In addition, they also differ in their approaches to cognition - some of them consider that the mind works basically like a computer, involving programs composed of abstract, amodal, and arbitrary symbols. Others claim that cognition is embodied - that is, symbols must be grounded on perceptual, motoric, and emotional experience.

The existence of such different approaches has consequences when dealing with practical issues such as understanding brain disorders, designing artificial intelligence programs and robots, improving psychotherapy, or designing instructional programs.

The symbolist and embodiment camps seldom engage in any kind of debate to clarify their differences. This book is the first attempt to do so. It brings together a team of outstanding scientists, adopting symbolist and embodied viewpoints, in an attempt to understand how the mind works and the nature of linguistic meaning. As well as being interdisciplinary, all authors have made an attempt to find solutions to substantial issues beyond specific vocabularies and techniques.

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L'autore:

Manuel de Vega graduated in Psychology at the University Complutense of Madrid. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Psycholinguists. Dr. de Vega's research is in the area of language comprehension, and the neurological bases of meaning. Arthur Glenberg received his BA in Psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Before moving to Arizona State University in 2008, he was a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Glenberg's research is in the areas of memory and language comprehension, and he is regarded as one of the foremost proponents of the embodied approach to language. Dr. Graesser is a full professor in the Department of Psychology, adjunct professor in Computer Science, and co-Director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. Dr. Graesser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego and has been a visiting researcher at Yale University, Stanford University, and Carnegie Mellon University. His primary research interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences. One goal of his research is to integrate psychological theories of learning, language and discourse processing with computer technologies, such as AutoTutor, Coh-Metrix, QUEST, and Question Understanding Aid (QUEST).

Contenuti:

1: Arthur M Glenberg, Manuel de Vega & Arthur C Graesser: Framing the debate
2: Arthur M Glenberg & Sarita Mehta: The limits of covariation
3: Arthur C Graesser & G Tanner Jackson: Body and symbol in AutoTutor: conversations that are responsive to the learners' cognitive and emotional states
4: Lawrence Shapiro: Symbolism, embodied cognition and the broader debate
5: Marcel A Just: What brain imaging can tell us about embodied meaning
6: Friedemann Pulvermuller: Grounding language in the brain
7: Andreas Knoblauch: Symbols and embodiment from the perspective of a neural modeler
8: Walter Kintsch: Symbol systems and perceptual representations
9: Rolf A Zwaan: Experiential traces and mental simulations in language comprehension
10: Anthony J Sanford: Defining embodiment in understanding
11: Deb Roy: A mechanistic model of three facets of meaning
12: Luc Steels: The symbol grounding problem has been solved. So what's next?
13: Lawrence W Barsalou, Ava Santos, W Kyle Simmons & Christine D Wilson: Language and simulation in conceptual processing
14: Manuel de Vega: Levels of embodied meaning: from pointing to counterfactuals
15: Max Louwerse & Patrick Jeuniaux: Language comprehension is both embodied and symbolic!
16: Robert Goldstone, David Landy & Ji Y Son: A well-grounded education: the role of perception in science and mathematics
17: Antoni Gomila: Mending or abandoning cognitivism
18: Mitchell J Nathan: An embodied cognition perspective on symbols, gesture and grounding instruction
19: Manuel de Vega, Arthur C Graesser & Arthur M Glenberg: Reflecting on the debate