Max M. Louwerse
Symbol Interdependency in Symbolic and Embodied Cognition
University of Memphis
abstract whether computational algorithms latent semantic analysis lsa extract meaning language advance theories human cognition become topic debate cognitive science whereby accounts symbolic cognition embodied cognition often contrasted albeit different reasons accounts importance statistical regularities linguistic surface structure tends underestimated current article gives overview symbolic embodied cognition accounts shows meaning induction attributed specific statistical process activation embodied representations attributed language specifically performance lsa attributed linguistic surface structure special characteristics algorithm embodiment findings attributed perceptual simulations explained distributional linguistic information