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Glenberg on Embodiment and Memory. “memory is embodied to facilitate interaction with the environment” “the meaningful, action-oriented component of conceptualization is not abstract and amodal. It reflects how bodies of our sort can interact with objects” (p. 3)
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Glenberg on Embodiment and Memory “memory is embodied to facilitate interaction with the environment” “the meaningful, action-oriented component of conceptualization is not abstract and amodal. It reflects how bodies of our sort can interact with objects” (p. 3) “the world is perceived in terms of its potential for interaction with the individual’s body” (p. 4)
Some Results Related to Embodiment --Typists prefer pairs of letters typed with opposing fingers over pairs typed with the same finger. Non-typists show no such preference. --Physical rotation improves ability to locate unseen objects. --Hand shapes prime sensibility judgments for phrases about actions requiring the use of those hand shapes (pinching and ‘dart-sentences’).
The framework --projectable properties: objective properties of the environment, such as shapes of objects --nonprojectable properties: properties that cannot be directly picked up from the environment (ownership) --conceptualization: possible ways of acting in a given situation, as a function of the relevant projectable and nonprojectable properties
--mesh: the degree to which actions represented by ideas can be simultaneously or sequentially executed --clamping: attending to the projectable properties of the current environment --suppression: ignoring projectable properties --trajectories: series of past actions that become natural or preferred
Some applications of the theoretical framework In planning, predicting, or anticipating, we suppress the clamped features and follow a natural trajectory. The effort of suppressing the projectable features explains the phenomenology of memory, i.e., the way in which memory feels different from perception. The degree to which we understand a sentence is determined by the meshing of ideas associated with the component words.
Questions and concerns What is the scope of the thesis? Does it apply to all forms of meaning, perception, and memory? Does the thesis account for standard inferences that are drawn from our understanding of text? Take a theoretical claim from Glenberg’s own article. Can you reduce its meaning to a claim about ways of interacting with the world? Will the reduction work? Behaviorism and phenomenalism did not do very well. How will this work abstract ideas, such as reference or justice?
