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Direct linkJohn Hollander; Andrew Olney – Cognitive Science, 2024
Recent investigations on how people derive meaning from language have focused on task-dependent shifts between two cognitive systems. The symbolic (amodal) system represents meaning as the statistical relationships between words. The embodied (modal) system represents meaning through neurocognitive simulation of perceptual or sensorimotor systems…
Descriptors: Verbs, Symbolic Language, Language Processing, Semantics
Peer reviewedBierschenk, Bernhard – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Cognitive model of processing symbolic information abstracted from verbal expressions should consider running text, not scattered sentences. A valid abstraction of information structures should be based on explicit encoding of intentionality and valuation. A model must cope with empirical context and novelty instead of truth-values in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Language Processing, Models
Peer reviewedCohen, Sophia R. – Child Development, 1985
Used descriptive analysis and a forced choice task to investigate childrens' and adults' production, interpretation, and judgment of notation. Results showed that young children may not impose the same symbol-meaning structure at decoding that was proposed at encoding. Only after this ability develops does a preference for one form-one function…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Encoding (Psychology), Language Acquisition
Abkarian, G. G. – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1986
Eighty unimpaired adults took the iconic-symbolic (I-S) subtest of the Muma Assessment Program under traditional protocols and revised instructions like those used in classic studies of classification ability. Only 18 functioned at the symbolic level as defined by the protocols; revised instructions more frequently evoked the expected symbolic…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedSmith, Cheryl A.; Sachs, Jacqueline – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Twenty-four 12- to 19-month-old children were studied to examine the cognitive basis for the emergence of verbs. Substantial increases in verb comprehension across contexts, abstract cognition, and the ability to engage in symbolic action were observed, suggesting a relationship between underlying cognitive development and increased verb…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMoriarty, Sandra – Journal of Visual Literacy, 1994
Discusses several philosophies of linguistics and semiotics that debate the importance of words and their relationship to signs, language as the primary modeling system, and the historical primacy of verbal versus visual communication. Describes human communication as both language-based and nonverbal, both aspects inviting arbitrary and abstract…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Interpretive Skills, Language Processing
