TY  - UNPB
ID  - cogprints949
UR  - http://cogprints.org/949/
A1  - Zwaan, Rolf
A1  - Kaup, Barbara
A1  - Stanfield, Robert
A1  - Madden, Carol
TI  - Language comprehension as guided experience
Y1  - 2000///
N2  - Language comprehension is best viewed as guided experience. The linguistic input provides cues to the human brain as to how to construct experiential simulations of the state of affairs it  denotes. We show that this view of language comprehension is consistent with a range of extant evidence in a variety of fields, 
ranging from historical linguistics to cognitive neuroscience. We furthermore discuss new evidence that directly supports the experience-based view. We argue that the prevailing amodal view of  language comprehension is unable to coherently account for this 
evidence.

AV  - public
KW  - comprehension
KW  -  embodied cognition
KW  -  language
KW  -  mental representation
KW  -  mental simulation
KW  -  situation model

ER  -

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