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Image Schemas and Concept Invention

Cognitive, Logical, and Linguistic Investigations

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  • Image schemas were introduced as mental generalisations from embodied experiences capturing notions such as containment, support and source path goal movement
  • These spatiotemporal relationships can be found in human cognition as information skeletons for analogical reasoning, as a grounding factor for abstract language, and as conceptual building blocks for concepts and events
  • The book will be of value to researchers in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychology, and creativity

Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Formal Framework for Image Schemas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
  3. Putting Formalised Image Schemas to Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
  4. Image Schema Experiments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 181-182

About this book

In this book the author's theoretical framework builds on linguistic and psychological research, arguing that similar image-schematic notions should be grouped together into interconnected family hierarchies, with complexity increasing with regard to the addition of spatial and conceptual primitives. She introduces an image schema logic as a language to model image schemas, and she shows how the semantic content of image schemas can be used to improve computational concept invention.

The book will be of value to researchers in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychology, and creativity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Conceptual and Cognitive Modelling Research Group (CORE), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Maria M. Hedblom

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Image Schemas and Concept Invention

  • Book Subtitle: Cognitive, Logical, and Linguistic Investigations

  • Authors: Maria M. Hedblom

  • Series Title: Cognitive Technologies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47329-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47328-0Published: 14 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47331-0Published: 14 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47329-7Published: 13 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1611-2482

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6635

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 182

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Creativity and Arts Education, Psychology Research

Buy it now

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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