A Case for Symbol Interdependency 1 Symbolic or Embodied representations: A Case for Symbol Interdependency
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A Case for Symbol Interdependency 2 Abstract Current directions in cognitive science suggest that language processing is either embodied or symbolic. Instead of posing the question whether language comprehension is embodied or symbolic, the question should be to what extent language comprehension is embodied and symbolic. The current study relies on the theoretical model that considers symbols as interdependent abstract systems of meaning occasionally grounded in the comprehenders " embodied experience of the world. Such a symbolic interdependency system would explain how symbolic representations are built onto embodied representations, would provide a convenient mnemonic support for language users and would explain why humans have and other species don " t have language. Statistical algorithms like Latent Semantic Analysis can be considered models of mechanisms behind symbol interdependency, able to reveal some of the embodied relations captured in language.
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