creators_name: Zwaan, Rolf
creators_name: Kaup, Barbara
creators_name: Stanfield, Robert
creators_name: Madden, Carol
type: other
datestamp: 2000-09-01
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:23
metadata_visibility: show
title: Language comprehension as guided experience
ispublished: unpub
subjects: brain-img
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: evol-psy
subjects: hist-ling
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: neuro-ling
subjects: percep-cog-psy
subjects: psy-ling
full_text_status: public
keywords: comprehension, embodied cognition, language, mental representation, mental simulation, situation model

abstract: 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
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Zwaan, Rolf and Kaup, Barbara and Stanfield, Robert and Madden, Carol  (2000) Language comprehension as guided experience.     (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/949/1/lc_as_guided-exp