The Brain's concepts: the role of the Sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge

By Vittorio Gallese †, George Lakoff. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Representation & Self-Supervised Learning, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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What can the brain teach us about building artificial intelligence? (2016, background): “Gallistel and Matzel (2013) have persuasively argued that the critical interstimulus interval for LTP is orders of magnitude smaller than the intervals that are behaviorally relevant in most forms of learning.”
Eight Problems for the Mirror Neuron Theory of Action Understanding in Monkeys and Humans (2009, background): “Some theorists have suggested that object recognition is dependent on action-related motor systems (Gallese & Lakoff, 2005).”
Thinking in Words: Language as an Embodied Medium of Thought (2014, background): “…the relevant representations should be amodal and functionally separate, and, on the latter, they should be partially grounded in perception and action systems (for examples of grounded accounts of language processing, see Gallese & Lakoff, 2005; Glenberg & Gallese, 2012; Pulverm€uller, 2010).”
A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science (2012, background): “Anderson identifies four theories of this kind in the literature: (1) Gallese and Lakoff's "neural exploitation" hypothesis (Gallese 2008; Gallese and Lakoff 2005); (2) Hurley's "shared circuits model" (Hurley 2005, 2008); (3) Dehaene's "neuronal recycling" theory (Dehaene 2005, 2009; Dehaene and…”
Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “To take just one example, given space limitations, I have also not touched on some of the emerging ideas on a neural theory of conceptual metaphor ( Gallese & Lakoff, 2005 ; Lakoff, 2008 ).”
Skills, toolkits, contexts and institutions: Clarifying the relationship between different approaches to cognition in cultural sociology (2010, positive): “provide the conceptual bases on which language as a mode of expression and conceptualization is built (Langacker, 1991; Gallese and Lakoff, 2005).”
Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (2012, background): “Research on systems of mirror and canonical neurons points to joint action-perception circuitry (cf Gallese & Lakoff, 2005).”
The role of gestures in the mathematical practices of those who do not see with their eyes (2011, background): “In this sense, we concur with the conjecture that both doing and imagining are multimodal experiences, involving the same neural substrate ( Gallese & Lakoff, 2005 ).”
How reading comprehension is embodied and why that matters (2011, background): “The difference between large body movements and speech is resolved with the concept of simulation (Barsalou, 1999; Barsalou, 2008; Gallese & Lakoff, 2005; Glenberg & Gallese, 2011; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006).”
The challenges of joint attention (2006, background): “Other groups of neurons are concerned with the various ways in which a particular action can be executed (Gallese and Lakoff, 2005).”
Coming of age: A review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics (2012, background): “One of the strongest formulations of embodied semantic representation comes from Gallese & Lakoff (2005).”
Chunking in Music by Coarticulation (2010, background): “The fundamental principle of this so-called embodied cognition paradigm is that perception and cognition are based on sensations of body movement (see e.g. Wilson & Knoblich (2005), Gallese & Lakoff (2005)).”