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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Embodied simulation."”.
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Embodied-linguistic conceptual representations during metaphor processing
… conceptual representations that are both embodied and linguistic. The thesis includes five self-contained papers, which showed a detailed picture of conceptual representation that was flexible and dynamic. In the paper contained in Chapter 3, I proposed an operational definition of the …
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Cognitive aspects of pictorial address and seriality in art: A practice-led investigtion
… gist extraction, spatial representation and embodied simulation in order to make the underlying perceptual and cognitive processes explicit. There is an emphasis on seriality as a mode of address and pictorial artworks that comprise multiple discrete but related instances displayed together. …
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First-Person Participation in Dante's 'Commedia'
… for textual literary theory new notions of embodied simulation from cognitive neuroscience and emerging ideas in videogame critical theory relating to the mechanics of player presence and the function of the avatar, suggesting and evidencing parallels with the deeply personal and embodied …
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Lovable lamps and sad umbrellas : empathizing with inanimate objects in animated films.
Why do people empathize with movie characters who aren't human beings? What causes viewers to perceive inanimate objects as people, such as the hopping lamp in Pixar's Luxo Jr.? These questions are under-researched in scholarly literature. Thus, this study used an original, animated video as a …