Conceptual Change as Change of Inner Perspective

To be a genuinely useful methodologyfor cognitive psychology,situated action mustbe extended to explain higher-level humancognition. Yet there is a tension betweenthe requirements for cognitive explanations and the kind of explanations situated action supplies. It is just not clear howto use embodiedinteraction with an external environmento explain processes that are so internal and that seemto crucially involve representatious and concepts. In short, there is nothing for conceptsto interact with. Perhapsthey interact with each other. This is the idea we explore here. Wegive a situated action style explanation for conceptualchangein the context of analogical reminding. Wehave two central results: 1) analogical remindingchangesconcepts in long-term memory, and 2) conceptshave implicit as well as explicit structure.