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Embodied meaning and negative priming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Arthur M. Glenberg ,
David A. Robertson ,
Michael P. Kaschak  and
Alan J. Malter
Arthur M. Glenberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
David A. Robertson*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0170
Michael P. Kaschak*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
Alan J. Malter*
Affiliation:
Department of Marketing, Eller College of Business and Public Administration, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0108 http://www.eller.arizona.edu/depts/mrkt/alan.htm
*
glenberg@facstaff.wisc.edu
david.robertson@psych.gatech.edu
kaschak@darwin.psy.fsu.edu
amalter@bpa.arizona.edu
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Abstract:

Standard models of cognition are built from abstract, amodal, arbitrary symbols, and the meanings of those symbols are given solely by their interrelations. The target article (Glenberg 1997t) argues that these models must be inadequate because meaning cannot arise from relations among abstract symbols. For cognitive representations to be meaningful they must, at the least, be grounded; but abstract symbols are difficult, if not impossible, to ground. As an alternative, the target article developed a framework in which representations are grounded in perception and action, and hence are embodied. Recent work (Glenberg & Robertson 1999; 2000; Glenberg & Kaschak 2002; Kaschak & Glenberg 2000) extends this framework to language.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 644 - 648
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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