Embodied cognition, abstract concepts, and body manipulation
Current approaches on cognition hold that concrete concepts are grounded in concrete experiences. There is no consensus, however, as to whether this is equally true for abstract concepts. In this review we discuss how the body might be involved in understanding abstract concepts through metaphor act...
Main Authors: | Katinka eDijkstra, Anita eEerland, Lysanne ePost, Josjan eZijlmans |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00757/full |
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