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UNINA9910821472103321 |
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Autore |
Fortescue Michael |
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Titolo |
The abstraction engine : extracting patterns in language, mind and brain / / Michael Fortescue |
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Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Advances in Consciousness Research ; ; 94 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Abstraction |
Thought and thinking |
Neurolinguistics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Abstraction all the way down -- Language, abstract and less abstract -- CoGnitive linguistics: Language embodied -- Abstraction, metaphor and cultural context -- The abstraction of events in narrative and memory -- Pre-linguistic abstraction and projection: perception and imagination -- The feel of things: abstract emotion -- Neurological underpinnings: the world seen through hidden layers -- Abstraction at work: It's child's play -- The philosophical approach -- Abstraction all the way up: its evolutionary purpose. |
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The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way through the various facets of abstraction, the book attempts to clarify - and relate - the often confusing meanings of the word 'abstract' that one may encounter even within the same discipline. The unusual synoptic approach, which draws upon research in psychology, neural network theory, child language acquisition, philosophy and consciousness studies, as well as a variety of linguistic disciplines, cannot be compared directly to other books on the market that touch upon just one particular aspect of abstraction. It is aimed at |
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a wide readership - anyone interested in the nature of abstraction and the cognitive processing and purpose behind it-- |
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UNINA9910437935903321 |
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Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation : Volume 1: The Palaeoproterozoic of Fennoscandia as Context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project / / edited by Victor Melezhik, Anthony R. Prave, Anthony E. Fallick, Lee R. Kump, Harald Strauss, Aivo Lepland, Eero J. Hanski |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
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9781283740746 |
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9783642296826 |
3642296823 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (502 p.) |
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Collana |
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Frontiers in Earth Sciences, , 1863-463X |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Geology |
Ecology |
Physical geography |
Environmental Sciences |
Earth System Sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part 1 Palaeoproterozoic Earth -- Part 2 The Fennoscandian Arctic Russia – Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP) -- Part 3 Fennoscandia: the First 500 Million Years of the Palaeoproterozoic -- Part 4 Geology of the Drilling Sites. |
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Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system. One of the earliest |
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and arguably greatest of these events was a substantial increase (orders of magnitude) in the atmospheric oxygen abundance, sometimes referred to as the Great Oxidation Event. Volume 1: The Palaeoproterozoic of Fennoscandia as Context for the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Earth Project describes the implementation of the FAR-DEEP drilling project in Arctic Russia. It summarises the knowledge of more than 50 years of largely Russian-led fieldwork, information hitherto virtually unavailable in the west, and provides geological description of drilling areas with an overwhelming illustration of rocks by high-quality, representative photographs. The volume offers a comprehensive review and rich photo-illustration of palaeotectonic, palaeogeographic and magmatic evolution of the Fennoscandian Shield in the early Palaeoproterozoic, and link the evolution of the shield to the emergence of an aerobic Earth system. The volume unfolds the event-based Fennoscandian chronostratigraphy and discusses the chronology of the Palaeoproterozoic global events as the base for a new subdivision of Palaeoproterozoic time. Welcome to the illustrative journey through one of the most exciting periods of planet Earth! |
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