The view that conceptual knowledge is explored through mechanisms originally deputed to navigate the physical space is theoretically fascinating and supported by an increasing body of multidisciplinary data. In their article, Bottini and Doeller proposed that spatial organizational principles of the hippocampal–parietal network can be favorably exploited to handle mental representations. The priority assigned to spatial models, however, should be carefully interpreted in the context of the deep entanglement between linguistic and spatial information: in fact, while spatial principles can help navigate conceptual knowledge, linguistic data itself can produce spatial information without relying on the computations described by Bottini and Doeller.
Maps and Space Are Entangled with Language Experience
Rinaldi L.
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2020-01-01
Abstract
The view that conceptual knowledge is explored through mechanisms originally deputed to navigate the physical space is theoretically fascinating and supported by an increasing body of multidisciplinary data. In their article, Bottini and Doeller proposed that spatial organizational principles of the hippocampal–parietal network can be favorably exploited to handle mental representations. The priority assigned to spatial models, however, should be carefully interpreted in the context of the deep entanglement between linguistic and spatial information: in fact, while spatial principles can help navigate conceptual knowledge, linguistic data itself can produce spatial information without relying on the computations described by Bottini and Doeller.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
