Embodied metaphor in perceptual symbols

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (4):617-618 (1999)
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Abstract

We agree with Barsalou's claim about the importance of perceptual symbols in a theory of abstract concepts. Yet we maintain that the richness of many abstract concepts arises from the metaphorical mapping of recurring patterns of perceptual, embodied experience to provide essential structure to these abstract ideas

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