Sentence Comprehension as Mental Simulation: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

It has been argued that the mental representation resulting from sentence comprehension is not (just) an abstract symbolic structure but a “mental simulation” of the state-of-affairs described by the sentence. We present a particular formalization of this theory and show how it gives rise to quantif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gabriella Vigliocco, Stefan L. Frank
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-11-01
Series:Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/4/672/