Grounding grammatical categories: attention bias in hand space influences grammatical congruency judgment of Chinese nominal classifiers
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Grounding grammatical categories: attention bias in hand space influences grammatical congruency judgment of Chinese nominal classifiers
Embodied cognitive theories predict that linguistic conceptual representations are grounded and continually represented in real world, sensorimotor experiences. However, there is an on-going debate on whether this also holds for abstract concepts. Grammar is the archetype of abstract knowledge, and therefore constitutes a test case against embodied theories of language representation. Former st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01299