Abstraction in perceptual symbol systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1435, 2003, Pages 1177-1187

  Barsalou, Lawrence W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Concept; Dynamic; Embodiment; Interpretation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0041346079     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1319     Document Type: Review

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