Grounding Symbolic Operations in Modality-Specific Processing

Abstract

The research performed under this contract assessed whether fundamental symbolic operations-predication, conceptual combination, and the representation of abstract concepts-arise from the simulation of modality-specific states in the brain. Traditionally, symbolic operations have been widely assumed to arise from the manipulation of amodal symbols. Indeed, researchers often assume that symbolic operations could only result in this latter way. Recent research on grounded cognition, however, has proposed that symbolic operations, in principle, could arise from modality-specific simulation. The experiments performed here offer preliminary evidence that they do.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA475839

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  • Aaron Barbey
  • Alex Martin
  • Andrew James
  • Ava Santos
  • Christine Wilson
  • Joy L. Brasfield
  • Kyle Simmons
  • Lawrence W. Barsalou
  • Shlomit Finkelstein
  • Stefan Gries
  • Xiaoping Hu
  • Zhaohui Liu

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  • Emory University

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