Reconciling Embodied and Distributional Accounts of Meaning in Language
Reconciling Embodied and Distributional Accounts of Meaning in Language
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DOI：
10.1111/tops.12096
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
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3
通讯作者：
Vigliocco, Gabriella
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作者：
Andrews, Mark;Frank, Stefan;Vigliocco, Gabriella
在过去的 15 年里，认知科学中的意义研究有两种日益流行的方法。一种基于具身认知理论，将意义视为感知和运动状态的模拟。另一种方法将意义视为口头和书面语言中单词统计分布的结果。从表面上看，这些似乎是对立的科学范式。在这篇综述中，我们的目的是展示最近的跨学科发展如何在协调这两种方法方面做出了很大的贡献。这些发展的基础是认识到语言内分布和感觉运动数据是相互依赖的。我们描述了哲学、心理学、认知神经科学和计算模型方面的最新工作，这些工作都基于或与这一结论一致。最后，我们考虑了由于这些发展而出现的未来研究的一些可能方向。
Over the past 15 years, there have been two increasingly popular approaches to the study of meaning in cognitive science. One, based on theories of embodied cognition, treats meaning as a simulation of perceptual and motor states. An alternative approach treats meaning as a consequence of the statistical distribution of words across spoken and written language. On the surface, these appear to be opposing scientific paradigms. In this review, we aim to show how recent cross-disciplinary developments have done much to reconcile these two approaches. The foundation to these developments has been the recognition that intralinguistic distributional and sensory-motor data are interdependent. We describe recent work in philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling that are all based on or consistent with this conclusion. We conclude by considering some possible directions for future research that arise as a consequence of these developments.