Abstract
Emerging grounded cognition contended that the representation and processing of knowledge involved perceptual, somatosensory, and motoric re-experiencing information. In this view, social interaction was grounded in the physical context. For example, temperature changed people’s social feelings and social feelings were understood by temperature. Hence, the representation of social interaction was based on the sensorimotor representation. However, it is still unclear whether and how humans use grounded cognition theory to explain social interaction. In this review, we first introduced some basic viewpoints of grounded cognition and how this theory can be applied in social interaction. Then it explained the universality of grounded cognition theory by comparing some related theories of grounded cognition. Next, by speculating on the causes of the phenomena of grounded cognition in social interaction, it was proved that grounded cognition theory can be well applied to social interaction. In the last part, the advantages and disadvantages of grounded theory in interpreting social interaction are further discussed by comparing conceptual metaphor theory with grounded cognition theory.
Highlights
Traditional theories about human cognition used the computing metaphor to describe cognition
We first introduced some basic viewpoints of grounded cognition and how this theory can be applied in social interaction
Compared with conceptual metaphor theory, using grounded theory to explain social interaction could bridge the gap between social interaction and physical context
Summary
Traditional theories about human cognition used the computing metaphor to describe cognition. Semantic networks, frames, and so on, were used to represent knowledge in human minds, which were all abstract and unrelated to perceptual and sensory knowledge (Fodor, 1975; Pylyshyn, 1984). Perceptual and sensory information were joined in different cognitive processing (Barsalou, Niedenthal, Barbey, & Ruppert, 2003). Li cognition pointed out that cognitive processing includes perceptual and sensory information
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