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The Body-Specificity Hypothesis
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Daniel Casasanto: The Ad Hoc Construction of Meaning
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- 1 Intro
- 2 The Ad Hoc Construction of Meaning
- 3 What's in our minds? Plato's Aviary
- 4 Ad Hoc CC&Ms
- 5 Words have meanings
- 6 Responses to Ad Hoc Cognition (AHC)
- 7 The plan
- 8 Like William James sai...
- 9 Some Categories are Ad Hoc
- 10 Some Concepts are Ad Hoc
- 11 Some parts of word meanings are ad ho
- 12 "the ubiquity of nonce sense" "He tried to teapot a policeman" (Clark, 1983)
- 13 The unboundedness of nonce sense
- 14 Semantic representations beyond the "core" language network
- 15 Action verbs activate somatotopic regions of (pre)motor cortex
- 16 Action words activate left-hemisphere circuits involved action observation and action execution.
- 17 The Body-Specificity Hypothesis
- 18 Does word meaning depend on the specifics of the language user's body?
- 19 The motor component of action verb understanding is body-specific.
- 20 Changing the syntactic context
- 21 OTHERS' ACTIONS (HE/SHE THROWS)
- 22 Creating meaning of indirect requests activates Motor, Theory of Mind areas
- 23 The ad hoc use of scientific constructs
- 24 CC&Ms in context
