TY  - JOUR
A1  - Myachykov, Andriy
A1  - Scheepers, Christoph
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Kessler, Klaus
T1  - TEST: A tropic, embodied, and situated theory of cognition
JF  - Topics in cognitive science
N2  - TEST is a novel taxonomy of knowledge representations based on three distinct hierarchically organized representational features: Tropism, Embodiment, and Situatedness. Tropic representational features reflect constraints of the physical world on the agent's ability to form, reactivate, and enrich embodied (i.e., resulting from the agent's bodily constraints) conceptual representations embedded in situated contexts. The proposed hierarchy entails that representations can, in principle, have tropic features without necessarily having situated and/or embodied features. On the other hand, representations that are situated and/or embodied are likely to be simultaneously tropic. Hence, although we propose tropism as the most general term, the hierarchical relationship between embodiment and situatedness is more on a par, such that the dominance of one component over the other relies on the distinction between offline storage versus online generation as well as on representation-specific properties.
KW  - Cognitive tropism
KW  - Embodiment
KW  - Groundedness
KW  - Situatedness
KW  - Language
KW  - Number processing
KW  - Perspective taking
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12024
SN  - 1756-8757
SN  - 1756-8765
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 442
EP  - 460
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -