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Embodiment in language-based memory: Some qualifications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Manuel de Vega
Manuel de Vega
Affiliation:
Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200 S/C de Tenerife, Spainmvega@ull.es
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Abstract

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(1) Non-projectable properties as opposed to the clamping of projectable properties play a primary role in triggering and guiding human action. (2) Embodiment in language-mediated memories should be qualified: (a) Language imposes a radical discretization on body constraints (second-order embodiment). (b) Metaphors rely on second-order embodiment. (c) Language users sometimes suspend embodiment.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 22 - 23
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press