Grounding Cognition : The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking (Hardcover)

List of contributors; 1. Introduction to Grounding Cognition: the Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking Diane Pecher and Rolf A. Zwaan; 2. Object concepts and action Anna M. Borghi; 3. Constraints on spatial language comprehension: function and geometry Laura A. Carlson and Ryan Kenny; 4. Embodiment in metaphorical imagination Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.; 5. Passionate thoughts: the emotional embodiment of moral concepts Jesse J. Prinz; 6. Grounding language in bodily states: the case for emotion Arthur M. Glenberg, David Havas, Raymond Becker and Mike Rinck; 7. Situating abstract concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou and Katja Wiemer-Hastings; 8. Dynamicity, fictivity, and scanning: the imaginative basis of logic and linguistic meaning Ronald W. Langacker; 9. The emergence of grammar from perspective Brian MacWhinney; 10. Embodied sentence comprehension Rolf A. Zwaan and Carol J. Madden; 11. On the perceptual-motor and image-schematic infrastructure of language Michael J. Spivey, Daniel C. Richardson, and Monica Gonzalez-Marquez; 12. Connecting concepts to each other and the world Robert L. Goldstone, Ying Feng, and Brian J. Rogosky; Indices.