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Cognition Psychology

Lawrence Barsalou: Perceptual Symbols, Simulators and Simulations

  Lawrence Barsalou is a psychologist and a cognitive scientist who worked on perception, memory, and language. One of his most cited works is Perceptual Symbol Systems (1999). In this section, I’m summarizing some of the main concepts in that paper, and reviewing the possibility of using concepts such as simulations to represent cognitive processes, […]