The languages of the brain

The only way we can convey our thoughts in detail to another person is through verbal language. Does this imply that our thoughts ultimately rely on words? Is there only one way in which thoughts can occur? This ambitious book takes the contrary position, arguing that many possible "languages o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Galaburda, Albert M., 1948-, Kosslyn, Stephen Michael, 1948-, Christen, Yves
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2002.
Colección:Mind/brain/behavior initiative.
Temas:
Language acquisition.
Cognition.
Neurolinguistics.
Nonverbal communication.
Langage > Acquisition.
Neurolinguistique.
Communication non verbale.
cognition.
PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology
Cognition
Language acquisition
Neurolinguistics
Nonverbal communication
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Albert M. Galaburda, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Yves Christen
  • PART I. Verbal representation
  • SECTION 1. Verbal processes
  • Neuroanatomy of categories / Albert M. Galaburda
  • Neurological organization of some language-processing constituents / Edgar Zurif
  • Brain organization for syntactic processing / David Caplan, Nathaniel Alpert, Gloria Waters
  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of phonological and semantic processes / Jean-François Démonet, Guillaume Thierry
  • SECTION 2. Verbal content
  • Can mental content explain behavior? / Pierre Jacob
  • Deference and indexicality / François Recanati
  • How is conceptual knowledge organized in the brain? Clues from category-specific deficits / Alfonso Caramazza
  • Discourse structure, intentions, and intonation / Barbara J. Grosz
  • SECTION 3. Verbal variants
  • Second language learners and understanding the brain / Catherine E. Snow
  • In praise of functional psychology / Franck Ramus, Jacques Mehler
  • Verbal and nonberbal representations of numbers in the human brain / Stanislas Dehaene
  • PART II. Nonverbal representation
  • SECTION 4. Perception and language
  • Visual and language area interactions during mental imagery / Bernard Mazoyer, Emmanuel Mellet, Nathalie Tzourio
  • Can the human brain construct visual mental images from linguistic imputs? / Michel Denis
  • Making area V1 glow in visual imagery / Denis Le Bihan, Isabelle Klein, Michiko Dohi
  • Developing knowledge of space: core systems and new combinations / Elizabeth S. Spelke
  • SECTION 5. Visual and motor represntations
  • Einstein's mental images: the role of visual, spacial, and motoric representations / Stephen M. Kosslyn
  • Spatial memory during navigation: what is being stored, maps or movements? / Alain Berthoz, Isabelle Viaud-Delmon, Simon Lambrey
  • Naturalization of mental states and personal identity / Marc Jeannerod
  • Using nonverbal representations of behavior: perceiving sexual orientation / Nalini Ambady, Mark Hallahan
  • SECTION 6. Representations in the world
  • Gap between seeing and drawing / Nigel Holmes
  • Rethinking images and metaphors: new geometries as key to artistic and scientific revolutions / Rhonda Roland Shearer
  • Elicting mental models through imagery / Gerald Zaltman
  • Greation, art, and the brain / Jean-Pierre Changeux

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