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1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) : illustrations |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Shared Mechanisms Hypothesis -- 1.1.1. General Motivations for the Shared Mechanisms Hypothesis -- 1.1.2. Specific Model of Shared Mechanisms: Reference to Existing Syntactic and Sensorimotor Models -- 1.2. Overview of the Argument of the Book -- 1.3. Some Objections -- 1.3.1. Abstract Sentences -- 1.3.2. Levels of Representation -- 1.3.3. Unfalsifiability -- 1.3.4. Differences between Languages -- 1.3.5. Syntactic Structure Does Not Determine Semantics -- 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: A Review -- 2.1. Early Visual System: Lateral Geniculate Nuclei, V1, V2, V3, and V4 -- 2.2. Object Classification Pathway: Inferotemporal Cortex -- 2.2.1. Object Categorization in Humans -- 2.2.2. Top-Down Influences on Object Categorization -- 2.3. Posterior Parietal Cortex: Vision for Attention and Action -- 2.4. Vision for Attentional Selection: LIP and the Frontal Eye Fields -- 2.4.1. LIP and FEF Cells Encode Salient Visual Stimuli and Associated Eye Movements -- 2.4.2. LIP/FEF Cells Also Encode Top-Down Attentional Influences -- 2.4.3. Spatial Attention and Object Classification -- 2.4.4. Coordinate Systems of LIP and FEF Cells -- 2.4.5. Visual Search by Inhibition of Return -- 2.5. Vision for Action: The Reach-to-Grasp Motor Circuits -- 2.5.1. Primary Motor Cortex (F1) -- 2.5.2. Reach Pathway -- 2.5.3. Grasp Pathway -- 2.5.4. Endpoint of the Reach-to-Grasp Action: The Haptic Interface -- 2.6. Planning Higher-Level Actions: Prefrontal Cortex and Higher Motor Areas -- 2.6.1. Representation of Action Categories in the Motor System -- 2.6.2. Top-Down Action Biasing in PFC: Miller and Cohen's Model -- 2.6.3. Summary -- 2.7. Action Recognition Pathway -- 2.7.1. Attentional Structure of Reach-to-Grasp Action Observation -- 2.7.2. STS: Biological Motion Recognition, Joint Attention, and Target Anticipation -- 2.7.3. Mirror Neurons in F5 -- 2.7.4. Mirror Neurons in Inferior Parietal Cortex -- 2.7.5. Model of the Mirror Neuron Circuit -- 2.7.6. Activation of Goal Representations during Action Recognition -- 2.7.7. Comparison with Other Models of Mirror Neurons -- 2.7.8. Endpoint of Grasp Observation: Visual Perception of Contact -- 2.8. Distinctions between Executed and Observed Actions: Representation of Self versus Other -- 2.8.1. Brain Regions with Differential Activation during Observed and Executed Actions -- 2.8.2. Match Model of Agency -- 2.8.3. Mode-Setting Model of Agency -- 2.8.4. Attention-to-self: Action Execution Revisited -- 2.9. Summary: The Pathways Involved in Perception and Execution of Reach-to-Grasp Actions -- 2.10. Order of Sensorimotor Events during the Execution and Perception of Reach Actions -- 2.10.1. Theoretical Framework: Deictic Routines -- 2.10.2. Sequence of Processes during Execution of a Reach Action -- 2.10.3. Sequence of Processes during Perception of a Reach Action -- 2.11. Summary -- 3. Models of Learning and Memory for Sensorimotor Sequences -- 3.1. Baddeley's Model of Working Memory -- 3.1.1. Visuospatial Sketchpad -- 3.1.2. Phonological Loop -- 3.1.3. Episodic Buffer -- 3.2. Working Memory Representations of Action Sequences in PFC -- 3.2.1. Competitive Queuing -- 3.2.2. Associative Chaining -- 3.2.3. PFC Sequencing Models and the Reach-to-Grasp Action -- 3.2.4. Reinforcement Regimes for Learning PFC Sequence Plans -- 3.2.5. Summary -- 3.3. Competition between PFC Plan Assemblies -- 3.3.1. Evidence for Multiple Alternative Plans in Dorsolateral PFC -- 3.3.2. Possible Role for Posterior PFC and the SMA in Plan Selection -- 3.3.3. Plan Termination and the Pre-SMA -- 3.4. PFC Plan Activation during Action Recognition -- 3.4.1. Attend-to-Other Operation -- 3.4.2. Abductive Inference of PFC States -- 3.4.3. Training the Abductive Network -- 3.4.4. Time-Course of Plan Activation during Action Recognition -- 3.5. Replaying PFC Plans: Simulation Mode -- 3.5.1. Working Memory Episodes -- 3.6. Episodic Memory and the Hippocampal System -- 3.6.1. Hippocampus as an Autoassociative Network -- 3.6.2. Episodic Memory and Context Representations -- 3.6.3. Hippocampus as a Convergence Zone -- 3.6.4. Representation of Individuals in Long-Term Memory -- 3.7. Hippocampal Episode Representations as Sequences -- 3.7.1. Storage of Fine-Grained Temporal Sequences in the Hippocampus -- 3.7.2. Cortical Associations of Hippocampal Sequences -- 3.7.3. Model of Sequence Encoding in the Hippocampus -- 3.7.4. Example: Storing Two Successive Episodes in the Hippocampal System -- 3.8. Cortical Mechanisms for Encoding and Retrieval of Episodic Memories -- 3.8.1. Cortical Operations Involved in Encoding Episodic Memories -- 3.8.2. Cortical Processes Involved in Access of Episodic Memories -- 3.9. Summary: Cognitive Processes Occurring during the Replay of a Grasp Episode -- 3.10. Assessment of the Sensorimotor Model -- 4. Syntactic Framework: Minimalism -- 4.1. What Is a Syntactic Analysis? -- 4.2. Phonetic Form and Logical Form -- 4.3. X-Bar Theory -- 4.4. Structure of a Transitive Clause at LF: Overview -- 4.5. IP Projection -- 4.6. DP-Movement and Case Assignment -- 4.7. VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis -- 4.8. AgrP Projection -- 4.8.1. Motivating AgrP: An Argument from SOV Word Order -- 4.8.2. Pollock's Argument for AgrP -- 4.9. Summary: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Minimalist Model -- 5. Relationship between Syntax and Sensorimotor Structure -- 5.1. Summary of the Sensorimotor Model -- 5.2. Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of The man grabbed a cup: Overview -- 5.3. Sensorimotor Characterization of the X-Bar Schema -- 5.4. Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of The man grabbed a cup -- 5.4.1. I and Agr as Attentional Actions -- 5.4.2. Sensorimotor Account of DP Movement and Case -- 5.4.3. Sensorimotor Interpretation of Head Movement -- 5.5. Role of LF Revisited -- 5.5.1. Sensorimotor Interpretation of the Generative Process -- 5.5.2. LF as a Representation of Sentence Meaning -- 5.6. Predictions of the Sensorimotor Account of LF: Looking at Some Other Syntactic Constructions -- 5.6.1. Control Constructions -- 5.6.2. Finite Clausal Complements -- 5.6.3. Questions and V-to-C Raising -- 5.7. Summary -- 6. Linguistic Representations in the Brain: Current Models of Localization and Development -- 6.1. Neural Substrates of Language -- 6.1.1. Neural Locus of Phonological Representations -- 6.1.2. Neural Representations of the Semantics of Concrete Nouns and Verbs -- 6.1.3. Neural Representation of Words -- 6.1.4. Neural Locus of Syntactic Processing -- 6.2. Basic Stages of Language Development -- 6.2.1. Preliminaries for Word Learning: Phonological Word Representations and Sensorimotor Concepts -- 6.2.2. Learning the Meanings of Individual Words -- 6.2.3. Infants' Earliest Single-Word Utterances -- 6.2.4. Learning Syntax: Early Developmental Stages -- 6.2.5. Learning Syntax: Nativist and Empiricist Models -- 7. New Computational Model of Language Development and Language Processing -- 7.1. Learning Single-Word Meanings and the Concept of a Communicative Action -- 7.1.1. Network for Cross-Situational Word Meaning Learning -- 7.1.2. Modeling the Development of the Concept of a Communicative Action and Its Role in Word Learning -- 7.1.3. Representation of Communicative Actions and Intentions -- 7.2. Learning to Generate Syntactically Structured Utterances -- 7.2.1. Word Production Network: Producing Single-Word Utterances -- 7.2.2. Control Network: Generating Word |
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Sequences from Sensorimotor Sequences -- 7.2.3. Word Sequencing Network for Learning Surface Patterns in Language -- 7.2.4. Network Combining Sensorimotor and Surface-Based Word-Sequencing Mechanisms -- 7.2.5. Some Preliminary Ideas about Sentence Comprehension -- 7.2.6. Model's Relationship to Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Production -- 7.3. Summary and Some Interim Conclusions -- 8. Summary, Comparisons, and Conclusions -- 8.1. Summary of the Proposals in This Book -- 8.2. Comparison with Other Embodied Models of Language and Cognition -- 8.3. Nativist-Empiricist Debate about Language |
| Summary |
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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LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
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NEUROSCIENCE/General |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-387) and index |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Cognitive grammar.
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Sensorimotor integration.
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Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
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Psycholinguistics.
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psycholinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Cognitive grammar
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
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Psycholinguistics
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Sensorimotor integration
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012002926 |
| ISBN |
1283707527 |
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9781283707527 |
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0262305429 |
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9780262305426 |
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