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Roberto Bottini -- A role for cognitive maps in metaphors and analogy?

Dr Roberto Bottini University of Trento Abstract: In human and non-human animals, conceptual knowledge is partially organized according to low-dimensional geometries that rely on brain structures and computations involved in spatial representations. Recently, two separate lines of research have investigated cognitive maps, that are associated with the hippocampal formation and are similar to world-centered representations of the environment, and image spaces, that are associated with the parietal cortex and are similar to self-centered spatial relationships. I will suggest that cognitive maps and image spaces may be two manifestations of a more general propensity of the mind to create low-dimensional internal models, and may play a role in analogical reasoning and metaphorical thinking. Finally, I will show some data suggesting that the metaphorical relationship between colors and emotions can be accounted for by the structural alignment of low-dimensional conceptual spaces. Speaker bio: Roberto Bottini is an associate professor at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento (Italy). He received a PhD in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity at the University of Bergamo, in Italy, and was a postdoc in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics at the New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research explores the nature and organization of conceptual knowledge in humans with a particular interest in the dimensions of space and time.