Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment

Kent, Lachlan

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102245

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Karandashev

2024

The Varieties of Love as Interpersonal Attraction

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Conceptualizing Love as an Interpersonal Attraction

Karandashev

2024

The Varieties of Love as Interpersonal Attraction

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Invariant representations in abstract concept grounding – the physical world in grounded cognition

Friedrich,

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Raab

2024

Psychon Bull Rev

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Grounded cognition states that mental representations of concepts consist of experiential aspects. For example, the concept “cup” consists of the sensorimotor experiences from interactions with cups. Typical modalities in which concepts are grounded are: The sensorimotor system (including interoception), emotion, action, language, and social aspects. Here, we argue that this list should be expanded to include physical invariants (unchanging features of physical motion; e.g., gravity, momentum, friction). Research on physical reasoning consistently demonstrates that physical invariants are represented as fundamentally as other grounding substrates, and therefore should qualify. We assess several theories of concept representation (simulation, conceptual metaphor, conceptual spaces, predictive processing) and their positions on physical invariants. We find that the classic grounded cognition theories, simulation and conceptual metaphor theory, have not considered physical invariants, while conceptual spaces and predictive processing have. We conclude that physical invariants should be included into grounded cognition theories, and that the core mechanisms of simulation and conceptual metaphor theory are well suited to do this. Furthermore, conceptual spaces and predictive processing are very promising and should also be integrated with grounded cognition in the future.

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Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment

Cited by 2 publications

References 102 publications

Conceptualizing Love as an Interpersonal Attraction

Conceptualizing Love as an Interpersonal Attraction

Invariant representations in abstract concept grounding – the physical world in grounded cognition

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