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Amodal describes that the neural representation of sensory input such as vision will be transduced to a representation that is not modality specific and therefore amodal such as a semantic network.
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Raab, M., Löffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Embodied Cognition. In: Schüler, J., Wegner, M., Plessner, H., Eklund, R.C. (eds) Sport and Exercise Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03921-8_6
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