This paper introduces ISL, a language for representing and manipulating image schemas. ISL supports the representation of symbolic as well as quantitative dynamic properties of objects and relationships. We have encoded a number of the image schemas commonly covered in the cognitive linguistics literature and tested them in three domains: patterns in chess, tactics in military scenarios, and be...

Background: Psychological elements could have effective roles on applications for cosmetic surgery and also on their precognition and satisfaction with surgery.  The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, and attachment styles with body image concern through the moderating role of self-esteem in cosmetic surgery applicants. Methods: It ...

"View, Knowledge, Word: The Container Image-Schema Applied to a Case of Proto-Indo-European Polysemy. present discussion aims at reconsidering the theoretical process knowledge in some ancient Indo-European languages light prerequisites offered by cognitive linguistics and prototype theory. Thanks dynamic pattern – which is primitive mental structure historical outcomes polysemic root will be d...

There seems to benodimensionof bodily awareness that cannot bedisrupted. To account for such variety, there is a growing consensus that there are at least two distinct types of body representation that can be impaired, the body schema and the body image. However, the definition of these notions is often unclear. The notion of body image has attracted most controversy because of its lack of unif...

There seems to be no dimension of bodily awareness that cannot be disrupted. To account for such variety, there is a growing consensus that there are at least two distinct types of body representation that can be impaired, the body schema and the body image. However, the definition of these notions is often unclear. The notion of body image has attracted most controversy because of its lack of ...

In recent years, the notion of body schema has been widely discussed, in particular fields connecting philosophy, cognitive science, and dance studies, as it seems to have bearing across disciplines a fruitful way. A main source this literature is Shaun Gallagher’s distinction between schema—the “pre-noetic” conditions bodily performance—and image—the intentional object—, another Merleau-Ponty’...

The existence of independent and dissociable representations of the body within the brain for perception (body image) and action (body schema) is currently under debate. Although demonstrations in which fake limbs are incorporated into the body image but not body schema are commonplace, such findings can be explained due to the strength of the illusion rather than autonomous representations. Th...

The efficacy of schema therapy on coping styles and body image concerns in obese people with binge-eating disorder : A single subject study