From Head to Toe: Embodiment Through Statistical Linguistic Frequencies

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2434-2439

  Tillman, Richard ^a   Datla, Vivek ^b   Hutchinson, Sterling ^a   Louwerse, Max ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual processing; embodied cognition; embodiment; statistical linguistic frequencies; symbol interdependency; symbolic cognition

Indexed keywords

BODY PARTS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CONCEPTUAL PROCESSING; EMBODIED COGNITION; EMBODIMENT; HUMAN BODIES; SEMANTICS KNOWLEDGE; STATISTICAL LINGUISTIC FREQUENCY; SYMBOL INTERDEPENDENCY; SYMBOLIC COGNITION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84870928439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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