Chapter 2
Mental models, perceptual simulation, and the conceptual-linguistic interface
Article outline
- 2.1Abstract symbolic representation
- 2.2Reassessing cognition and language
- 2.2.1From color terms to prototypes
- 2.2.2Prototypes and cognitive models
- 2.2.3The embodied nature of language and thought
- 2.2.4Mental simulation and conceptual representation
- 2.2.5Simulation, meaning, and understanding language
- 2.3A model of the interaction between linguistic and conceptual system
- 2.3.1Parameterized simulator activity and the problem of semantic underdetermination
- 2.3.2The conceptual representation of baldness – an exemplary case
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