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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Recent scholarship highlights language's role in enhancing cognition, viewing it as a cognition-enhancing niche and neuroenhancement.
  • However, this perspective conflicts with embodied language processing theories, which emphasize modality-specific, non-abstract representations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reconcile the apparent conflict between language's cognitive-enhancing role and embodied theories of language processing.
  • To argue that language augments cognitive control through abstract representations.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of representation (embodied vs. abstract, conceptual vs. linguistic).
  • Characterization of cognitive control and its representational infrastructure.
  • Review of research on linguistic labels and inner speech in cognitive control.

Main Results:

  • Language augments cognitive control.
  • This augmentation is facilitated by abstract, non-embodied representations.
  • Abstract, sparse linguistic representations serve as manipulable placeholders for detailed representations.

Conclusions:

  • Language enhances cognitive control by providing abstract, non-embodied representations.
  • This provides a framework for understanding language's cognition-enhancing capacity beyond embodied processing.
  • The findings challenge purely embodied accounts of language and cognition.