Situation Model and Embodiment

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.120How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Situation model; modality-specific simulations; embodied cognition; disembodied cognition

Abstract

There are decades of evidence based on the fundamental language logic, showing that people create situation models when they understand text, which will be presented in more detail in the second part of this paper. However, after half a century of discussion among psychologists, it remains unclear whether these situation models are implemented in modality-specific simulations. To be able to sort out more clearly the clues whether the situation models are embodied or disembodied, in this work, we briefly review behavioural evidence for situated text understanding, and then evaluate the available evidence that bears on the question of whether situation models are “embodied” or “disembodied”. We try to suggest further ways, such as using PET and fMRI technology, in which this question might be investigated effectively in the end of this paper.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuji Yao
AU  - Shizhe Wang
AU  - Fangqi Chen
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Situation Model and Embodiment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 702
EP  - 706
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.120
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.120
ID  - Yao2021
ER  -