19 Nov
2013
19 Nov
'13
6:10 p.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Department of Psychology, Emory University
Date: Friday, November 22, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34.,
Room G15
Situated Conceptualization
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Department of Psychology
Emory University
One way of construing brain organization is as a collection of systems
that processes the components of a situation in parallel, including its
setting, agents, objects, actions, and internal states. In a given
situation, each situational component is conceptualized individually, as
when components of eating in a kitchen are conceptualized as kitchen
(setting), diner (agent), food (food), chewing (action), and hunger
(internal state). In turn, configural concepts integrate these
individual conceptualizations into larger structures that conceptualize
the larger situation, such as eating and meal. From this perspective, a
situated conceptualization is a distributed record of conceptual
processing in a given situation, across all the relevant component
systems. On later occasions, a situated conceptualization can become
active to simulate the respective situation in its absence (e.g.,
activating a situated conceptualization to simulate eating). From this
perspective, the concept that represents a category, such as kitchen or
eating, is the collection of situated conceptualizations that has
accumulated from processing the category across situations, similar to
exemplar theories. The utility of situated conceptualization as a
general theoretical construct is illustrated for situated action, social
embodiment, social mirroring, and emotion, along with the central role
of pattern-completion inference.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) !
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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