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- Title
Language and Intelligence: A Relationship Supporting the Embodied Cognition Hypothesis.
- Authors
Negri, Attà; Castiglioni, Marco; Caldiroli, Cristina Liviana; Barazzetti, Arianna
- Abstract
Cognitive science has gathered robust evidence supporting the hypothesis that cognitive processes do not occur in an amodal format but take shape through the activation of the sensorimotor systems of the agent body, which works as simulation system upon which concepts, words, and thought are based. However, studies that have investigated the relationship between language and cognitive processes, as both embedded processes, are very rare. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that intelligence is associated with referential competence, conceived as the ability to find words to refer to our subjective and perceptual experience, and to evoke understanding of this experience in the listener. We administered the WAIS-IV test to 32 nonclinical subjects and collected autobiographical narratives from them through the Relationship Anecdotes Paradigm Interview. The narratives were analyzed linguistically by applying computerized measures of referential competence. Intelligence scores were found to correlate with the use in narratives of words related to somatic and sensory sensations, while they were not associated with other measures of referential competence related to more abstract domains of experience or based on vivid or reflective dimensions of language style. The results support the hypothesis that sensorimotor schemas have an intrinsic role in language and cognition.
- Subjects
SOMATIC sensation; COGNITION; COGNITIVE science; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of Intelligence, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2079-3200
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jintelligence10030042