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Knott Alistair <1967->
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Titolo: |
Sensorimotor cognition and natural language syntax [[electronic resource] /] / Alistair Knott
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina: | 401/.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
Cognitive grammar | |
Sensorimotor integration | |
Minimalist theory (Linguistics) | |
Psycholinguistics | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-387) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Shared Mechanisms Hypothesis; 1.2 An Overview of the Argument of the Book; 1.3 Some Objections; 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; 2.1 The Early Visual System; 2.2 The Object Classification Pathway; 2.3 The Posterior Parietal Cortex; 2.4 Vision for Attentional Selection; 2.5 Vision for Action; 2.6 Planning Higher-Level Actions; 2.7 The Action Recognition Pathway; 2.8 Distinctions between Executed and Observed Actions |
2.9 Summary: The Pathways Involved in Perception and Execution of Reach-to-Grasp Actions2.10 The Order of Sensorimotor Events during the Execution and Perception of Reach Actions; 2.11 Summary; 3 Models of Learning and Memory for Sensorimotor Sequences; 3.1 Baddeley's Model of Working Memory; 3.2 Working Memory Representations of Action Sequences in PFC; 3.3 Competition between PFC Plan Assemblies; 3.4 PFC Plan Activation during Action Recognition; 3.5 Replaying PFC Plans; 3.6 Episodic Memory and the Hippocampal System; 3.7 Hippocampal Episode Representations as Sequences | |
3.8 Cortical Mechanisms for Encoding and Retrieval of Episodic Memories3.9 Summary; 3.10 An Assessment of the Sensorimotor Model; 4 A Syntactic Framework: Minimalism; 4.1 What Is a Syntactic Analysis?; 4.2 Phonetic Form and Logical Form; 4.3 X-Bar Theory; 4.4 The Structure of a Transitive Clause at LF; 4.5 The IP Projection; 4.6 DP-Movement and Case Assignment; 4.7 The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis; 4.8 The AgrP Projection; 4.9 Summary; 5 The 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""5.3 A Sensorimotor Characterization of the X-Bar Schema; 5.4 Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of ""The man grabbed a cup""; 5.5 The Role of LF Revisited; 5.6 Predictions of the Sensorimotor Account of LF; 5.7 Summary; 6 Linguistic Representations in the Brain; 6.1 Neural Substrates of Language; 6.2 The Basic Stages of Language Development; 7 A New Computational Model of Language Development and Language Processing; 7.1 Learning Single-Word Meanings and the Concept of a Communicative Action | |
7.2 Learning to Generate Syntactically Structured Utterances7.3 Summary and Some Interim Conclusions; 8 Summary, Comparisons, and Conclusions; 8.1 A Summary of the Proposals in This Book; 8.2 Comparison with Other Embodied Models of Language and Cognition; 8.3 The Nativist-Empiricist Debate about Language; Notes; References; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sensorimotor cognition and natural language syntax ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-70752-7 |
0-262-30542-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462171403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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