Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions - Vyvyan Evans
3 Language and inner space
Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions - Vyvyan Evans
Benjamin K. Bergen [+]
University of California, San Diego
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Benjamin K. Bergen is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in cognitive, computational, neuro-, and psycholinguistics. Topics that his research touches include embodiment in syntax and semantics, linguistic relativism, natural language understanding, and connectionist language modeling.
Carl Polley
University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
Kathryn Wheeler
University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
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This chapter surveys evidence showing that spatial language does indeed engage the neurocognitive systems.