An efficient coding approach to the debate on grounded cognition.
The debate between the amodal and the grounded views of cognition seems to be stuck. Their only substantial disagreement is about the vehicle or format of concepts. Amodal theorists reject the grounded claim that concepts are couched in the same modality-specific format as representations in sensory...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 12; pp. 5245 - 5270 |
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Dec2018
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