Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 1997 - Volume 20, Issue 04  


Open Peer Commentary
Ballard et al.: Deictic codes

Pointers, codes, and embodiment

Robert A. Wilson a1
a1 Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 rwilson@uiuc.edu www.beckman.uiuc.edu/groups/cs/people/wilson.html

Abstract

This commentary raises three questions about the target article: What are pointers or deictic devices? Why insist on deictic codes for cognition rather than deixis simpliciter? And in what sense is cognition embodied, on this view?