Showing posts with label conceptual processing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conceptual processing. Show all posts
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Dolphin-Bikes and The Iconicity Effect
Since the journal Cognition typically allows free online access to its current volume, I was able to read a recent paper on a topic that I've always found interesting: the role of embodied experience in language processing. The basic question is, how does our size and shape and orientation as human beings affect our language? Think about a creature that's physically very different from us, like jelly fish or bacteria or dolphins. Now imagine those creatures magically had the same cognitive capacity that we do.
Would our language system work for them or would it necessarily have to be different?
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