title: Language comprehension as guided experience
creator: Zwaan, Rolf
creator: Kaup, Barbara
creator: Stanfield, Robert
creator: Madden, Carol
subject: Brain Imaging
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Historical Linguistics
subject: Semantics
subject: Neurolinguistics
subject: Perceptual Cognitive Psychology
subject: Psycholinguistics
description: Language comprehension is best viewed as guided experience. The linguistic input provides cues to the human brain as to how to construct experiential simulations of the state of affairs it  denotes. We show that this view of language comprehension is consistent with a range of extant evidence in a variety of fields,  ranging from historical linguistics to cognitive neuroscience. We furthermore discuss new evidence that directly supports the experience-based view. We argue that the prevailing amodal view of  language comprehension is unable to coherently account for this  evidence. 
date: 2000
type: Other
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/plain
identifier: http://cogprints.org/949/1/lc_as_guided-exp
identifier:   Zwaan, Rolf and Kaup, Barbara and Stanfield, Robert and Madden, Carol  (2000) Language comprehension as guided experience.     (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/949/