具身观视角:身体经验对概念形成的影响研究

From an Embodied Cognition View: Research on Effects of Concept Formation of Body Experience

具身认知观强调认知在本质上是具身的,身体经验在认知过程中发挥着关键作用,概念是认知活动的基础,因此,本文探讨在具身认知视角下的概念形成过程,试图说明身体经验是如何影响概念的加工与表征。概念又可被分为两类:抽象概念和具体概念,在这其中,两种概念受到身体经验的影响程度也在讨论范围中,本文通过梳理一些经典的具身观理论和研究范例,详细论述了身体经验对具体概念和抽象概念加工和形成的影响,发现不仅是具体概念和抽象概念之间有具身性差异,同一类概念间的不同概念之间也会存在身体经验参与程度的不同,因此,本文试图以概念的具身等级性为基础提出一个在概念形成上的不同概念间的统一的理论假设。

The viewpoints of embodied cognition advocate that cognition is essentially embodied and the body plays a pivotal role in the cognitive processing. The concept is the basis of cognitive activity. Therefore, this paper explored the process of concept formation in embodiment perspective, and tried to explain how the body experience affected the process and representation of a concept. Concepts can be divided into two categories: concrete concept and abstract concept. Also, the different mechanisms of concrete concept and abstract concept have been under discussion. Through some classical embodied theories and research paradigms, this paper discussed in detail the relationship of the concrete and abstract concept formation, and found that there were not only different mechanisms existed between two kinds of concepts, but also a difference of the level of embodiment existed between concepts under one category. Therefore, I tried to propose a unified hypothesis according to the level of embodiment participated in the processing of concept formation.