Are Situation Models Embodied?

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.468How to use a DOI?

Keywords

situation model; embodied; modality-specific

Abstract

Researchers have proposed that readers construct situation models when reading texts. According to Zwaan’s event-indexing model, a situation model can be analyzed in five dimensions: space, time, entity, causation, and motivation. There is robust behavioral evidence showing the existence of situation models from these five dimensions. However, the representational format of situational models, i.e. whether they are embodied or disembodied, is still controversial. Behavioral evidence is unable to answer this question, and only neural evidence testing both situation model construction and modality-specific activation can solve this problem. Three promising paradigms are sorted out, but not all of them give out expected results. We suggest that future experiments could focus on situated conceptualization, application of TMS, and depth of understanding.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Beige Jin
AU  - Yucheng Wu
AU  - Cheok Kei Lo
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Are Situation Models Embodied?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2710
EP  - 2715
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.468
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.468
ID  - Jin2021
ER  -