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Perceptual symbol systems.
- L. Barsalou
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
- 1 August 1999
Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then, developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal theories that rest on… Expand
Grounded cognition.
- L. Barsalou
- Medicine
- Annual review of psychology
- 2008
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.… Expand
Ad hoc categories
- L. Barsalou
- Psychology, Medicine
- Memory & cognition
- 1 May 1983
People construct ad hoc categories to achieve goals. For example, constructing the category of “things to sell at a garage sale” can be instrumental to achieving the goal of selling unwanted… Expand
Ideals, central tendency, and frequency of instantiation as determinants of graded structure in categories.
- L. Barsalou
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning…
- 1 October 1985
Three possible determinants of graded structure (typicality) were observed in common taxonomic categories and goal-derived categories: (1) an exemplar's similarity to ideals associated with goals its… Expand
Context-independent and context-dependent information in concepts
- L. Barsalou
- Psychology, Medicine
- Memory & cognition
- 1982
It is proposed that concepts contain two types of properties. Context-independent properties are activated by the word for a concept on all occasions. The activation of these properties is unaffected… Expand
Simulation, situated conceptualization, and prediction
- L. Barsalou
- Computer Science, Medicine
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B…
- 12 May 2009
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The instability of graded structure: implications for the nature of concepts
- L. Barsalou
- Computer Science
- 1987
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Situated simulation in the human conceptual system
- L. Barsalou
- Psychology
- 1 October 2003
Four theories of the human conceptual system—semantic memory, exemplar models, feed‐forward connectionist nets, and situated simulation theory—are characterised and contrasted on five dimensions: (1)… Expand
Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems
- L. Barsalou, W. Simmons, A. Barbey, C. Wilson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 February 2003
The human conceptual system contains knowledge that supports all cognitive activities, including perception, memory, language and thought. According to most current theories, states in… Expand
Perceptions of perceptual symbols
- L. Barsalou
- Computer Science
- 1 August 1999
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