From molecule to metaphor : a neural theory of language / Jerome A. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Jerome A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Neurobiology.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 357 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2006]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A theory that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a function of our brains and experience, integrating recent findings from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, and demonstrated with computational models.

Contents:

I Embodied Information Processing 1

1 The Mystery of Embodied Language 3

2 The Information Processing Perspective 15

3 Computational Models 29

II How the Brain Computes 41

4 Neurons and Other Cells 43

5 The Society of Neurons 59

6 Nature and Nurture 71

III How the Mind Computes 83

7 Connections in the Mind 85

8 Embodied Concepts and Their Words 95

9 The Computational Bridge 105

IV Learning Concrete Words 123

10 First Words 125

11 Conceptual Schemas and Cultural Frames 135

12 Learning Spatial Relation Words 149

V Learning Words for Actions 161

13 Embodied Knowledge of Actions 163

14 Learning Action Words 173

VI Abstract and Metaphorical Words 183

15 Conceptual Systems 185

16 Metaphors and Meaning 199

17 Understanding as Simulation 213

VII Understanding Stories 225

18 The Structure of Action and Events 227

19 Belief and Inference 235

20 Understanding News Stories 245

VIII Combining Form and Meaning 257

21 Combining Forms-Grammar 259

22 The Language Wars 271

23 Combining Meanings-Embodied Construction Grammar 283

IX Embodied Language 295

24 Embodied Language Understanding 297

25 Learning Constructions 311

26 Remaining Mysteries 325

27 All Together Now 333.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Feldman, Jerome A. From molecule to metaphor.

ISBN:

9780262272544

0262272547

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