Images of the unseen: extrapolating visual representations for abstract and concrete words in a data-driven computational model.

ABSTRACT: Theories of grounded cognition assume that conceptual representations are grounded in sensorimotor experience. However, abstract concepts such as jealousy or childhood have no directly associated referents with which such sensorimotor experience can be made; therefore, the grounding of abstract concepts has long been a topic of debate. Here, we propose (a) that systematic relations exist between semantic representations learned from language on the one hand and perceptual experience on the other hand, (b) that these relations can be learned in a bottom-up fashion, and (c) that it is possible to extrapolate from this learning experience to predict expected perceptual representations for words even where direct experience is missing. To test this, we implement a data-driven computational mod

SUBMITTER: Gunther F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9674750 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature