Drivers of cultural success: The case of sensory metaphors.

Akpınar, Ezgi; Berger, Jonah

doi:10.1037/pspa0000025

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“…Following Jamrozik et al ( 2016 ), distilled abstractions can probably operate as stand-alone representations, given that they sometimes become active in metaphor without the support of activations in modality-specific areas (which can accompany them optionally). As Zwaan ( 2016 ) points out, however, abstract representations often become much easier to understand, once they have been embellished with modality-specific information (also see Akpinar & Berger, 2015 ; Schwanenflugel, 1991 ).…”

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“…Moving beyond our modest understanding of abstract concepts may require studying a few of them in detail, rather than studying them in the aggregate, especially given their diversity (Wilson-Mendenhall et al, 2013 ). Because abstract concepts appear dependent on background situations (Akpinar & Berger, 2015 ; Schwanenflugel, 1991 ; Zwaan, 2016 ), examining their operation in specific situations may provide leverage—and perhaps be necessary—for making significant progress.…”

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On Staying Grounded and Avoiding Quixotic Dead Ends

2016

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The 15 articles in this special issue on The Representation of Concepts illustrate the rich variety of theoretical positions and supporting research that characterize the area. Although much agreement exists among contributors, much disagreement exists as well, especially about the roles of grounding and abstraction in conceptual processing. I first review theoretical approaches raised in these articles that I believe are Quixotic dead ends, namely, approaches that are principled and inspired but likely to fail. In the process, I review various theories of amodal symbols, their distortions of grounded theories, and fallacies in the evidence used to support them. Incorporating further contributions across articles, I then sketch a theoretical approach that I believe is likely to be successful, which includes grounding, abstraction, flexibility, explaining classic conceptual phenomena, and making contact with real-world situations. This account further proposes that (1) a key element of grounding is neural reuse, (2) abstraction takes the forms of multimodal compression, distilled abstraction, and distributed linguistic representation (but not amodal symbols), and (3) flexible context-dependent representations are a hallmark of conceptual processing.

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On Staying Grounded and Avoiding Quixotic Dead Ends

2016

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“…Sensory metaphors, i.e., metaphors that relate more to the senses and with greater associative cues that their semantic equivalents (Akpinar & Berger, 2015), constitute an important means of encouraging embodied mental simulation among consumers (Forceville, 2008;Hirschman, 2007;Zaltman & Zaltman, 2008). Using metaphors helps communicate embodied concepts, since metaphors transfer experientially remote manipulations of bodily states (Landau, Meier, & Keefer, 2010).…”

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Pleasure and the Control of Food Intake: An Embodied Cognition Approach to Consumer Self‐Regulation

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Merunka

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Psychology and Marketing

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International audienceConsumers try to avoid temptation when exposed to appetizing foods by diverting their attention away from their senses (e.g., sight, smell, mouthfeel) and bodily states (e.g., state of arousal, salivation) in order to focus on their longer term goals (e.g., eating healthily, achieving an ideal body weight). However, when not including sensations in their decision-making processes, consumers risk depleting their self-regulatory resources, potentially leading to unhealthy food choices. Conversely, based on the concept of ``embodied self-regulation,'' the suggestion is made that considering bodily states may help consumers regulate their food choices more effectively. A new model is proposed that facilitates understanding observed consumer behavior and the success or failure of self-control in food intake. It is argued that bodily states and sensory information should be considered when modeling consumer behavior and developing health-related advocacy and communication campaigns. The model proposed here leads to new perspectives on consumer consumption behavior and health policy research and strategies. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc

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“…Steen et al, 2010). Over the last 200 years, the frequency of sensory metaphors has increased (Akpinar & Berger, 2015). Because metaphor is such a dominant strategy in talking about sensory perception, four entire chapters will be devoted to this topic (Chapters 6-9).…”

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Sensory Linguistics

Winter¹

2019

Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research

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Chapter 1. Sensory linguistics 1.1. Introduction Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling, hearing, tasting, and smelling. Everything we do, everything we feel, everything we know, is mediated through the senses. Because the senses are so important to us, it is not surprising that all languages have resources for talking about the content of sensory perception. Miller and Johnson-Laird (1976, p. 3) remind us that "word-percept associations are fundamental" to language. Rakova (2003, p. 34) says that we do not have words "just because it is nice for us to have them," but because they are "devices that connect us to the external world." In fact, without the ability to express perceptual content, language would be useless. "Sensory linguistics" is the study of how language relates to the senses. It addresses such fundamental questions as: How are sensory perceptions packaged into words? Which perceptual qualities are easier to talk about than others? How do languages differ in how perception is encoded? And how do words relate to the underlying perceptual systems in the brain? The time is ripe for bringing these questions and many others together. Research into the connection between language and perception has a long tradition in the language sciences. Among other things, researchers have looked at how many words there are for particular sensory modalities (e.g., Viberg, 1983), how frequently particular sensory perceptions are talked about (e.g., San

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Drivers of cultural success: The case of sensory metaphors.

Cited by 64 publications

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On Staying Grounded and Avoiding Quixotic Dead Ends

On Staying Grounded and Avoiding Quixotic Dead Ends

Pleasure and the Control of Food Intake: An Embodied Cognition Approach to Consumer Self‐Regulation

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