Grounded Cognition

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Psychology - Cognition, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich, language: English, abstract: Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception, action, and introspection. Instead, grounded cognition proposes that modal simulations, bodily states, and situa...