Christina Bermeitinger | University of Hildesheim, Institute for Psychology, Hildesheim, Germany
Markus Kiefer | University of Ulm, Department of Psychiatry, Ulm, Germany
There is a long-standing debate within philosophy and psychology on the question
whether concepts are abstract mental entities or based on reactivation of sensory and
motor representations. The chapter reviews what concepts are and what they are for. The relation of concepts and semantic memory is pointed out. The classical views on conceptual representations proposing an amodal representation of concepts are contrasted with recent embodiment theories, which assume that concepts are essentially grounded in perception and action. Different sources of evidence from behavioral psychology and neuropsychology foster the view that concepts are represented in the sensory and motor systems. We attempt an integration of embodied and classical views on conceptual representation and discuss embodied processes in related areas of cognitive psychology.
2022. Versuch einer Ist-Soll-Analyse am Beispiel eines integrativen Schießtrainings für polizeiliche Spezialeinheiten aus der „ecological dynamics“-Perspektive. In Handbuch polizeiliches Einsatztraining, ► pp. 811 ff.
Bermeitinger, Christina
2015. Priming. In Exploring Implicit Cognition [Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies, ], ► pp. 16 ff.
Bermeitinger, Christina
2016. Priming. In Psychology and Mental Health, ► pp. 42 ff.
Bloch‐Mullins, Corinne L.
2015. Foundational Questions about Concepts: Context‐sensitivity and Embodiment. Philosophy Compass 10:12 ► pp. 940 ff.
Groeben, Norbert
2020. Biographische Real-Fiktion als Paradigma narrativer Erklärung. Journal of Literary Theory 14:2 ► pp. 287 ff.
Koch, Sabine C., Christine Caldwell & Thomas Fuchs
2013. On body memory and embodied therapy. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy 8:2 ► pp. 82 ff.
Leipold, Bernhard, Christina Bermeitinger, Werner Greve, Birgit Meyer, Manuel Arnold & Marianna Pielniok
2014. Short-term induction of assimilation and accommodation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 67:12 ► pp. 2392 ff.
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