US-Germany Cooperative Research: International: Embodied Processing of Verbal and Numerical Information

0233175格伦堡该奖项支持威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校与德国德累斯顿工业大学普通心理学研究所的Mike Rinck合作的PI和研究生。德国和美国研究小组的共同努力将检验这一假设，即对语言的理解是基于行动的，并将该假设扩展到数字认知领域。根据该理论，词和短语被索引到感知符号或环境中的实际对象。归根结底，理解语言就是理解所描述的行动，以便在所描述的情况下对行动产生影响。最近的研究支持了英语的这一假设，目前的工作将检验这一假说是否适用于德语。这项工作对基础研究和应用研究都有相当大的意义。该项目将允许参与的研究生从在另一个国家进行研究中受益。他们将培养对周围世界的高度欣赏，同时也学习重要的新技术技能。

0233175GlenburgThis award supports the PI and graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a collaboration with Mike Rinck of the Institute for General Psychology at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. The combined efforts of the German and US groups will test the hypothesis that understanding of language is action based and extends the hypothesis to the domain of numerical cognition. According to the theory, words and phrases are indexed to perceptual symbols or actual objects in the environment. Ultimately, understanding language is understanding the actions described to the implications for action in the situation described. Recent work has supported the hypothesis for English, and the present work will test it for German. This work has considerable implication for both basic and applied research.The project also has an educational objective. The project will allow the graduate students involved to benefit from performing research in another country. They will develop a heightened appreciation of the world around them while also learning important new technical skills.