Simulating the Elimination of Simulation: the Case of Language Comprehension
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In her target article Tina Iachini (2011) proposes to adopt an embodied multimodal approach to account for classical psychological and more recent neuroscientific results on mental imagery. Her proposal is challenging, and I share with the author the persuasion that the times are mature to introduce and defend an embodied approach to mental imagery. While the challenge has well known antecedents in the area of motor imagery (e.g., Jeannerod, 1994), it strikes me as quite new if we consider the research field of mental imagery as a whole (for a related proposal see Grush, 2004).
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