Grounding abstract concepts and beliefs into experience: The embodied perspective

Buccino, Giovanni; Colagé, Ivan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.943765

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“…This is consistent with Vigliocco et al (2009) and Kousta et al (2011), who argued that both sensorimotor and emotional information contribute to the semantic representation of abstract concepts. However, little nonlinguistic evidence has been provided to support the integrated role of conceptual metaphor and emotion in understanding abstract concepts, except for Buccino and Colagè (2022). Most previous studies were conducted based on experiments of linguistic data, for example, human ratings on literal/metaphorical utterances, and neuroimaging experiments with literal/metaphorical expressions as stimuli.…”

Section: Embodied Cognition and Abstract Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodiment of color metaphor: an image-based visual analysis of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’

2023

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Perceptual information includes sensorimotor and emotional experience regarding the multimodality of the perceptual system. The current study provides an image-based visual analysis on the embodiment of color metaphors through the investigation of (i) the perceptual (dis)similarities between the literal and metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’ and (ii) the influence of emotional valence on the degree of their perceptual (dis)similarities. Specifically, 24 concepts in three semantic domains were represented as eight-dimensional vectors based on the color information extracted from online images, including two color concepts of black and white, 20 abstract concepts referring to 8 metaphorical meanings of hēi and 12 metaphorical meanings of bái, and two abstract concepts referring to positive and negative affective polarity. Statistical analyses show that (i) the literal and metaphorical meanings of hēi and bái are perceptually distinguishable given their significant perceptual (dis)similarities and (ii) the observed perceptual distinguishability cannot be solely attributed to the (in)consistency of emotional valence associated with the senses. The present study provides nonlinguistic evidence for the embodiment of color metaphors in the Chinese context with an empirical approach that can simultaneously capture the metaphorical mappings and affective associations among cross-domain concepts with sensory data.

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Section: Embodied Cognition and Abstract Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%