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John 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
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Litwin, Piotr; Milkowski, Marcin – Cognitive Science, 2020
Predictive processing (PP) has been repeatedly presented as a unificatory account of perception, action, and cognition. In this paper, we argue that this is premature: As a unifying theory, PP fails to deliver general, simple, homogeneous, and systematic explanations. By examining its current trajectory of development, we conclude that PP remains…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Theories
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Candace Walkington; Mitchell J. Nathan; Min Wang; Kelsey Schenck – Cognitive Science, 2022
Theories of grounded and embodied cognition offer a range of accounts of how reasoning and body-based processes are related to each other. To advance theories of grounded and embodied cognition, we explore the "cognitive relevance" of particular body states to associated math concepts. We test competing models of action-cognition…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes, Models
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Siegelman, Noam; Bogaerts, Louisa; Kronenfeld, Ofer; Frost, Ram – Cognitive Science, 2018
From a theoretical perspective, most discussions of statistical learning (SL) have focused on the possible "statistical" properties that are the object of learning. Much less attention has been given to defining what "learning" is in the context of "statistical learning." One major difficulty is that SL research has…
Descriptors: Statistics, Learning Processes, Visual Learning, Learning Modalities
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McCloy, Rachel; Beaman, C. Philip; Smith, Philip T. – Cognitive Science, 2008
The utility of an "ecologically rational" recognition-based decision rule in multichoice decision problems is analyzed, varying the type of judgment required (greater or lesser). The maximum size and range of a counterintuitive advantage associated with recognition-based judgment (the "less-is-more effect") is identified for a range of cue…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cues, Validity, Recognition (Psychology)