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Introduction to the Special Topic Embodied and Grounded Cognition
2011
Frontiers in Psychology
The Challenge To aCCounT for absTraCT ConCepTs Most studies of E and G cognition have focused on concrete objects and actions. People can also represent and reason about abstract concepts that do not have many sensory-motor features, however, and there is not much evidence yet on grounding of abstract concepts in sensory-motor systems (for a review, see . Thus, critics have argued that current evidence does not fully account for abstract representation. Some authors propose a theoretical
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00187
pmid:21887149
pmcid:PMC3156979
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