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1 online resource (431 p.) |
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Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics Ser |
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Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Information -- Introduction: Semiosis, Brain, and Context: The Unmet Need for a Transdisciplinary Framework -- Neurosemiotics: What, How, Why? -- The Handbook at a Glance -- Looking Forward -- Funding -- References -- Part I Prolegomena to Neurosemiotics -- 1 Neurosemiotics: A Brief History of Its Development and Key Concerns -- Introduction -- A Brief History of Neurosemiotics -- Characteristics of Research in Neurosemiotics |
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Preconditions for Neural Semiosis -- Some Features of Neural Cells That Are Relevant for Semiosis -- Neurosemiosis, or the Neural Processes That Are Responsible for the Creation of Sign-Relations -- Process-Relation Duality -- Semiosis Is the Process That Creates the Simultaneous Presence of Multiple Options -- Codes Are the Building Blocks of Semiosis -- Habituation Quasi-Stabilizes the Neural Structure -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 2 Steps to a Semiotic Cognitive Neuroscience -- Cognition Explained Away -- Semiosis: The Missing Link |
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The Non-Semiotic Framing of Cognitive Science -- Semiotic Preliminaries -- Semiosis: The Process of Interpreting -- Semiotic Affordances -- Deconstructing the Code Analogy -- Nested Interpretive Dependencies -- Semiotic Neuroscience -- A Dynamical Basis for Cortical Iconism -- Counter-Current Information Processing -- Recursive Interpretation -- Symbolic Interpretation -- Ungrounding Symbolic Reference -- From Index to Symbol -- Mnemonic Implications -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 An Active Inference Approach to Semiotics: A Variational Theory of Signs -- Introduction |
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Active Inference -- An Introduction to the Active Inference Framework -- Markov Blankets and Generative Models -- A Simple Generative Model: Likelihood Mappings and Prior Beliefs -- Toward a Variational Semiotics -- Active Inference and Deflationary Semantics -- A Basic Semiotic Structure -- Variational Icons ("Looks Like") -- Variational Indices ("Points To") -- Variational Symbols ("Refers To, Within a Convention") -- Deontic Cues and the Conventionalization of Signs -- The Syntactic Aspect of Symbols -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References |
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4 Experimental Semiotics: Past, Present, and Future -- Introduction -- Historical Context of Experimental Semiotics -- The Fundamentals of Human Semiosis -- Symbol Grounding -- Design Features -- The Cognitive and Social Underpinnings of Human Semiosis -- Cognitive Underpinnings: Impact of Modality -- Social Underpinnings: Horizontal and Vertical Transmission -- Open Challenges and Future Directions -- Limitations -- Integration of ES and Neuroscience in a Neurosemiotic Framework -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 5 Beyond the Human Animal: Towards a Cross-Species Neurosemiotics |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Introduction |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ibáñez, Agustín
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| ISBN |
9781000728736 |
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1000728730 |
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