# Embodied cognition : image schemas and such?

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Have you guys watched George Lakoff and others videos or books.  
How all the concepts and language expressions are constrained and described in the metaphors in a SPATIAL and TEMPORAL body terms.

Image schema: container

- I went **in** the room
- I took the apple **out** of the box
- the keys are **in** the back pocket
- if A is in B and B is in C then A is in C

other schemas : source-path-goal, support , ~20 of them

Then also language expressions are body-inspired :  
warm up  
cool down  
i’m feeling down  
i’m up beat

why not : warm down

The theory is very well summarized in this book : From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language

The basic idea of image-schema on cognitive level, very much resembles grid-cell maps and spaces in the lower implementation level and Frames resemble reference-frames… i.e.

my theory goes : pooled sensory-motor sequences become image-schema.

what do you think…