PolyU-led research reveals that sensory and motor inputs help large language models represent complex concepts

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 June 2025 – Can one truly understand what “flower” means without smelling a rose, touching a daisy or walking through a field of wildflowers? This question is at the core of a rich debate in philosophy and cognitive science. While embodied cognition theorists argue that physical, sensory experience is essential to concept formation, studies of the rapidly evolving large language models (LLMs) suggest that language alone can build deep, meaningful representations of the world.