Context effects in embodied lexical-semantic processing

The embodied view of language comprehension proposes that the meaning of words is grounded in perception and action rather than represented in abstract amodal symbols. Support for embodied theories of language processing comes from behavioural studies showing that understanding a sentence about an a...

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Main Authors: Wessel O Van Dam, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer, Oliver Lindemann, Harold Bekkering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00150/full