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Direct linkTonneau, Francois; Abreu, Nadjelly K.; Cabrera, Felipe – Learning and Motivation, 2004
Recent work from an embodied-cognition perspective suggests that symbolic understanding involves bodily actions. Indeed, laboratory evidence and cultural phenomena such as magic rituals and symbolic aggression show that the behaviors evoked by a word and its referent can be quite similar to each other. In other circumstances, however, words and…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cues, Stimulus Generalization, Symbolic Learning
