Internal Perception: The Role of Bodily Information in Concepts and Word Mastery

By Sara Dellantonio and Luigi Pastore

Book Overview

Discusses how bodily information contributes to categorization

Uses language and specifically semantic competence to understand the internal cognitive processes underlying categorization and conceptualization

Proposes a distinction between categories and concepts

Analyzes how abstract concepts as well as concepts describing internal states, emotions are constituted and how people develop semantic competence with respect to the words that denote them

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662557614
• ISBN13: 9783662557617
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"