A connectionist approach to embodied conceptual metaphor
A connectionist approach to embodied conceptual metaphor
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00197
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
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3.8
通讯作者：
Glick, Jeremy J.
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作者：
Flusberg, Stephen J.;Thibodeau, Paul H.;Glick, Jeremy J.
越来越多的数据被收集起来，支持这样一种观点，即大脑是具体化的，认知是基于感觉-运动过程的。一些研究人员甚至声称，这种范式对认知科学的核心原理构成了严重挑战，包括被广泛接受的可以根据抽象计算原理分析大脑的观点。另一方面，心智研究的计算方法导致了特定模型的发展，这些模型帮助研究人员在具身认知(EC)理论有时所缺乏的细节水平上理解复杂的认知过程。在这里，我们认为连接主义体系结构尤其可以解释EC文献中的许多令人惊讶的结果。这些模型可以学习其环境中的统计结构，为理解简单的感觉-运动机制如何在学习过程中引发更高水平的认知行为提供了一个理想的框架。至关重要的是，它们形成了重叠的、分布式的表征，这些表征恰恰具有许多具体化的认知描述所要求的性质。我们通过扩展现有的联结主义语义认知模型来说明这一观点，以模拟来自具体化概念隐喻文献的发现。具体地说，我们探索时间的抽象领域是如何通过对空间的具体经验(包括对文化特定的空间和语言线索的经验)来构建的。我们建议，EC研究人员和连接主义模型师都可以从理解这些模型和他们试图解释的经验发现的综合方法中受益。
A growing body of data has been gathered in support of the view that the mind is embodied and that cognition is grounded in sensory-motor processes. Some researchers have gone so far as to claim that this paradigm poses a serious challenge to central tenets of cognitive science, including the widely held view that the mind can be analyzed in terms of abstract computational principles. On the other hand, computational approaches to the study of mind have led to the development of specific models that help researchers understand complex cognitive processes at a level of detail that theories of embodied cognition (EC) have sometimes lacked. Here we make the case that connectionist architectures in particular can illuminate many surprising results from the EC literature. These models can learn the statistical structure in their environments, providing an ideal framework for understanding how simple sensory-motor mechanisms could give rise to higher-level cognitive behavior over the course of learning. Crucially, they form overlapping, distributed representations, which have exactly the properties required by many embodied accounts of cognition. We illustrate this idea by extending an existing connectionist model of semantic cognition in order to simulate findings from the embodied conceptual metaphor literature. Specifically, we explore how the abstract domain of time may be structured by concrete experience with space (including experience with culturally specific spatial and linguistic cues). We suggest that both EC researchers and connectionist modelers can benefit from an integrated approach to understanding these models and the empirical findings they seek to explain.