UID:
almafu_9960950867202883
Umfang:
xx, 357 p. :
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ill.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-262-29688-8
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1-282-10083-1
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9786612100833
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0-262-27254-7
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1-4294-7729-6
Inhalt:
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 "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out. Feldman develops his theory in computer simulations--formal models that suggest ways that language and thought may be realized in the brain. Combining key findings and theories from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, Feldman synthesizes a theory by exhibiting programs that demonstrate the required behavior while remaining consistent with the findings from all disciplines.After presenting the essential results on language, learning, neural computation, the biology of neurons and neural circuits, and the mind/brain, Feldman introduces specific demonstrations and formal models of such topics as how children learn their first words, words for abstract and metaphorical concepts, understanding stories, and grammar (including "hot-button" issues surrounding the innateness of human grammar). With this accessible, comprehensive book Feldman offers readers who want to understand how our brains create thought and language a theory of language that is intuitively plausible and also consistent with existing scientific data at all levels.
Anmerkung:
"A Bradford book."
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Embodied Information Processing -- 1 The Mystery of Embodied Language -- 2 The Information Processing Perspective -- 3 Computational Models -- II How the Brain Computes -- 4 Neurons and Other Cells -- 5 The Society of Neurons -- 6 Nature and Nurture -- III How the Mind Computes -- 7 Connections in the Mind -- 8 Embodied Concepts and Their Words -- 9 The Computational Bridge -- IV Learning Concrete Words -- 10 First Words -- 11 Conceptual Schemas and Cultural Frames -- 12 Learning Spatial Relation Words -- V Learning Words for Actions -- 13 Embodied Knowledge of Actions -- 14 Learning Action Words -- VI Abstract and Metaphorical Words -- 15 Conceptual Systems -- 16 Metaphor and Meaning -- 17 Understanding as Simulation -- VII Understanding Stories -- 18 The Structure of Action and Events -- 19 Belief and Inference -- 20 Understanding News Stories -- VIII Combining Form and Meaning -- 21 Combining Forms-Grammar -- 22 The Language Wars -- 23 Combining Meanings-Embodied Construction Grammar -- IX Embodied Language -- 24 Embodied Language Understanding -- 25 Learning Constructions -- 26 Remaining Mysteries -- 27 All Together Now -- References and Further Reading -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-262-56235-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-262-06253-4
Sprache:
Englisch
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