There is an immediate abstract system, perhaps the propositional representation, and that we have systems for converting back and forth between the perceptual and motor representations and this is abstract representation.

Typically refer to particular times, places, people, or objects, and typically correspond to the nouns.

Values we take for granted versus values we must include that do not apply to all items as is all birds fly, except the ostrich.

 Rather than abstract propositional representations, we represent information in combined verbal and visual codes.

The contribution of the environment and our bodies in shaping our cognition.

Thelen (2000)

“Embodied means that it arises from bodily interactions with the world and is continually meshed with them”.

·         Cognition depends on the kinds of experiences that come from having a body with particular perceptual and motor capabilities that are inseparably linked together.

Holds that we store no central concept, but only specific instances.

Links nodes for the properties of categories that associate them.

Representational arrows connecting nodes in a propositional network.

A neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.

We have various representations tied to different perceptual and motor systems and that we have means of directly converting one representation to another.

·         The person has converted info from the modality of the presentation to some other modality.

The propositions, relations, and arguments in a propositional network.

Suggests that all information is represented in terms that are specific to a particular perceptual modality (viusual, auditory, etc.) and basically perceptual.

Propositions represented in network form.

·         Visually represented by the ellipsis.  

Mental relationships between objects are represented by symbols and not by mental images of the scene.

Organizes the arguments and typically corresponds to the verbs and other relational terms.

Describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them.

·         They are abstractions from specific instances that can be used to make inferences about instances of concepts they represent.

·         It is a way of encoding default assumptions.  

Event schemas are focused on patterns of behavior that should be followed for certain events.

·         Stereotypic sequences of actions.

Slots specify values of various attributes that members of a category possess.

Basically, they are attributes.