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From molecule to metaphor : a neural theory of language /

In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldman, Jerome A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Colección:Bradford book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The mystery of embodied language
  • 2. The information processing perspective
  • 3. Computational models
  • 4. Neurons and other cells
  • 5. The society of neurons
  • 6. Nature and nurture
  • 7. Connections in the mind
  • 8. Embodied concepts and their words
  • 9. The computational bridge
  • 10. First words
  • 11. Conceptual schemas and cultural frames
  • 12. Learning spatial relation words
  • 13. Embodied knowledge of actions
  • 14. Learning action words
  • 15. Conceptual systems
  • 16. Metaphors and meaning
  • 17. Understanding as simulation
  • 18. The structure of action and events
  • 19. Belief and inference
  • 20. Understanding news stories
  • 21. Combining forms--grammar
  • 22. The language wars
  • 23. Combining meanings--embodied construction grammar
  • 24. Embodied language understanding
  • 25. Learning constructions
  • 26. Remaining mysteries
  • 27. All together now.