02012nam 2200481 450 991046628840332120171228124915.0(CKB)3710000001134236(MiAaPQ)EBC4835292(DLC) 2017030998(EXLCZ)99371000000113423620170425h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe abstraction engine extracting patterns in language, mind and brain /Michael FortescueAmsterdam, [Netherlands] ;Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] :John Benjamins Publishing Company,2017.©20171 online resource (200 pages) illustrationsAdvances in Consciousness Research ;9490-272-1361-5 90-272-6584-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Advances in consciousness research ;94.AbstractionThought and thinkingNeurolinguisticsElectronic books.Abstraction.Thought and thinking.Neurolinguistics.153.24Fortescue Michael662476MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466288403321The abstraction engine2159384UNINA