The amodal brain and the offloading hypothesis.
In this article, I argue that a growing body of evidence shows that concepts are amodal and I provide a novel interpretation of the body of evidence that was taken to support neo-empiricist theories of concepts: the offloading hypothesis in the 1990s and 2000s.
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. machery@pitt.edu.
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D001921:Brain; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012660:Semantics
Concepts and categories; Semantics