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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 24] 2021
► pp. 23–66

Chapter 1
The five senses and the cognitivist approach to perception

Article outline
  • 1.1The five senses: Tradition, evidence and mainstream
    • 1.1.1The (Western) philosophical tradition
    • 1.1.2The five senses from some psychology handbooks
  • 1.2Technology of sensors and psychology
    • 1.2.1Instruments for measuring the physical world
    • 1.2.2Instruments and psychophysics
  • 1.3The digital revolution: Computers and cognitive science
    • 1.3.1The emergence of a cyberworld
    • 1.3.2Psychology and cognitive science
  • 1.4Main concepts at work in cognitive science
    • 1.4.1Information and information processing
    • 1.4.2Representation and knowledge
    • 1.4.3The classificatory tradition and “natural” categories
      • History: The classificatory tradition
      • “Natural” categories in cognitive psychology
  • 1.5Sensory science and product experience
    • 1.5.1Humans as instruments in sensory science
    • 1.5.2Descriptors for product experience
  • 1.6Language and the senses
    • 1.6.1Language and cognitive science: Words and things
    • 1.6.2The semiotic triad
    • 1.6.3Language and thought in cognitive linguistics
    • 1.6.4Word games in wording the senses
      • The word “sense”
      • Naming the five senses
  • 1.7Back to psychology: A no man’s land in cognitive science
  • 1.8Structure of the book
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 01 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.01dub
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