Is the Cognitive Revolution Misguided?

In the present dissertation, I examine the role of sensory information for abstract conceptual thought. In Chapter 1, the central assumptions in grounded approaches to cognition are introduced and contrasted with more traditional views on the representation of concepts expressed by cognitive researchers since the cognitive revolution in psychology. The three empirical chapters of this thesis focus on how morality, time, and valence are grounded in perceptual symmetry, left-right auditory space, and brightness, respectively. Together, these chapters show that perceptual information inﬂuences abstract conceptual processing, even for highly abstract concepts that lack perceptual characteristics.

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How Otto Selz Became a Forerunner of the Cognitive Revolution

The Life Cycle of Psychological Ideas - Path in Psychology ◽

10.1007/0-306-48010-7_8 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 175-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pieter J. Strien ◽

Erik Faas

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Revolution

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Introduction

Reflections on the Musical Mind ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691157443.003.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Jay Schulkin

Keyword(s):

Embodied Cognition ◽

Human Development ◽

Biological Systems ◽

Human Experience ◽

Social Neuroscience ◽

Musical Expression ◽

Anatomical Features ◽

Social Nature ◽

Cognitive Revolution

This book traces the origins of music, from the appearance of the relevant anatomical features, to the development of diverse forms of biological systems that figure in musical expression. It considers how music reflects our social nature and is tied to other instrumental expression in the adaptation to changing circumstances. It shows that expectancy and violations of those musical expectations linked to memory and human development are critical features in the aesthetics of musical sensibility (like other avenues of human experience). The book also examines how music is connected to movement and dance. This introduction provides an overview of the “cognitive revolution” and the emergence of a discipline called “social neuroscience,” as well as Leonard Meyer's theory of music drawn from a pragmatism based in C. S. Peirce and John Dewey's notion of inquiry. It also explains how action and embodied cognition are related to music.

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