From Molecule to Metaphor A Neural Theory of Language 1st Edition by Jerome A Feldman ISBN 0262062534 9780262062534

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ISBN 10: 0262062534 
ISBN 13: 9780262062534
Author: Jerome A Feldman 

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.

From Molecule to Metaphor A Neural Theory of Language 1st Table of contents:

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

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