The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is c…
This text explores how human beings construe experience: experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality.
"Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, The Human Semantic Potential describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in which they structure space…
"Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, The Human Semantic Potential describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in which they structure space…
Preliminary Material -- How Language Structures Concepts -- Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition -- How Spoken and Signed Language Structure Space Differently: A Neural Model -- Fictive Motion in Language and 'Ception' -- The Attentional System of Language -- Introspection a…