Following up on this post, from
what I gathered amodal just means that conceptual representation
doesn't require sensorimotor 'modal' input. The amodal conceptual hub is
what does the integration of the modal input, and according to the
article, together they form a supramodel 'space.'
Hence its a hybrid theory between the two. By the way, this definition
supramodal was more in line with what I was trying to
convey by amodal in the first place.
There's
also amodal perception, a related notion. It's when one sees just a
part of an object but can fill in rest of it in their imagination. It
seems it's the amodal hub that does this. E.g., from this source:
"The
spatial structure that is our amodal experience of the world is the
common ground, or lingua franca, that unites all sensory experience in a
modality-independent structural representation of the world, and that
amodal structure represents our perceptual and cognitive understanding
of the world."
Btw,
that last link has several chapters before and after that one with
links to them. This looks to be an invaluable resource on this and
related topics. E.g., Ch. 1 is on Lakoff & Nunez's work on image
schema in math, Ch.2 on image schemas and so on. Which is exactly what
I'm looking for, how all this relates.
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