Abstract

BAQUERO CASTELLANOS, Silvia  and  SEGOVIA CUELLAR, Andrés. Embodied Cognition and Semantic Comprehension. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.2, pp.123-134. ISSN 1657-8961.

This review and analysis of the literature aims to show in a brief manner the recent findings in the study of the nature of language and semantic comprehension from the embodied and motor theories of cognition. The guidelines that uphold the embodied and enactive theories of cognition and their role for the study of language in psycholinguistics are established, as it is becoming common to find increasing support for them. In a first part of the article the main principles of the theory are shared as well as the different ideas about language that have been proposed under the name of embodied semantics. Then, the case of Parkinson's disease and language processing impairments in Parkinson's patients is taken as a critical case. This neurological disease associated with voluntary movement and motor deficits, is ideal for validating theories that propose a close relationship between motor activity in context, as well as the neurophysiology of action and the processes of understanding language.

Keywords : Human sciences; cognition; language; comprehension; semantics.

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