Language and simulation in conceptual processing

Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on Meaning and Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Barsalou, Lawrence W ^a   Santos, Ava ^a   Simmons, W Kyle ^b   Wilson, Christine D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Conceptual processing; Dual code theory; Knowledge; Language and situated simulation theory; Language systems; Lexical hypothesis; Modal systems; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922760481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217274.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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