Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy by Alfonsina Scarinzi

Author:Alfonsina Scarinzi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

Perceptual Kinds and Conceptual Kinds

As described earlier, perceptual symbols/states come in two natural kinds (sensorimotor and affective3), and they contribute to conceptual representation and processing in different ways. In particular, the evidence we have reviewed suggests that sensorimotor symbols are better candidates for carrying information about concepts that are high in concreteness, whereas affective symbols better handle concepts high in abstractness. This is a reasonable and parsimonious account because it uses naturally occurring perceptual information to represent stimuli. It is also evolutionarily sound and consistent with current findings from cognitive neuroscience showing that lower-level functions/processes (perceptual) are actively recruited/reused during higher-order cognition [2]. However, the differential, task-specific aspects of aesthetics suggest that both kinds of symbols may be recruited, but at different times.

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