UID:
almafu_9959227125502883
Format:
1 online resource (405 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-70752-7
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0-262-30542-9
Content:
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Shared Mechanisms Hypothesis; 1.2 An Overview of the Argument of the Book; 1.3 Some Objections; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 1.5 How to Read the Book; 2 Sensorimotor Processing during the Execution and Perception of Reach-to-Grasp Actions; 2.1 The Early Visual System; 2.2 The Object Classification Pathway; 2.3 The Posterior Parietal Cortex; 2.4 Vision for Attentional Selection; 2.5 Vision for Action; 2.6 Planning Higher-Level Actions; 2.7 The Action Recognition Pathway; 2.8 Distinctions between Executed and Observed Actions
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2.9 Summary: The Pathways Involved in Perception and Execution of Reach-to-Grasp Actions2.10 The Order of Sensorimotor Events during the Execution and Perception of Reach Actions; 2.11 Summary; 3 Models of Learning and Memory for Sensorimotor Sequences; 3.1 Baddeley's Model of Working Memory; 3.2 Working Memory Representations of Action Sequences in PFC; 3.3 Competition between PFC Plan Assemblies; 3.4 PFC Plan Activation during Action Recognition; 3.5 Replaying PFC Plans; 3.6 Episodic Memory and the Hippocampal System; 3.7 Hippocampal Episode Representations as Sequences
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3.8 Cortical Mechanisms for Encoding and Retrieval of Episodic Memories3.9 Summary; 3.10 An Assessment of the Sensorimotor Model; 4 A Syntactic Framework: Minimalism; 4.1 What Is a Syntactic Analysis?; 4.2 Phonetic Form and Logical Form; 4.3 X-Bar Theory; 4.4 The Structure of a Transitive Clause at LF; 4.5 The IP Projection; 4.6 DP-Movement and Case Assignment; 4.7 The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis; 4.8 The AgrP Projection; 4.9 Summary; 5 The Relationship between Syntax and Sensorimotor Structure; 5.1 Summary of the Sensorimotor Model
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5.2 Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of ""The man grabbed a cup""5.3 A Sensorimotor Characterization of the X-Bar Schema; 5.4 Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of ""The man grabbed a cup""; 5.5 The Role of LF Revisited; 5.6 Predictions of the Sensorimotor Account of LF; 5.7 Summary; 6 Linguistic Representations in the Brain; 6.1 Neural Substrates of Language; 6.2 The Basic Stages of Language Development; 7 A New Computational Model of Language Development and Language Processing; 7.1 Learning Single-Word Meanings and the Concept of a Communicative Action
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7.2 Learning to Generate Syntactically Structured Utterances7.3 Summary and Some Interim Conclusions; 8 Summary, Comparisons, and Conclusions; 8.1 A Summary of the Proposals in This Book; 8.2 Comparison with Other Embodied Models of Language and Cognition; 8.3 The Nativist-Empiricist Debate about Language; Notes; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-01776-8
Language:
English
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