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Cognitive Interfaces Emile van der Zee (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside)

Cognitive Interfaces By Emile van der Zee (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside)

Summary

This study offers a fresh perspective on the architecture of the mind and the relationship between language and cognition. In particular, the book is concerned with the perception and representation of spatial structure.

Cognitive Interfaces Summary

Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information by Emile van der Zee (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside)

This book brings new perspectives to bear on the the architecture of the mind and the relationship between language and cognition. It considers how information is linked in the mind between different cognitive and expressive levels - so that people can, for example, talk about what they see and act upon what they hear - and how these linkages are and need to be constrained. The book is concerned in particular with the perception and representation of spatial structure. In the opening chapter the editors address the general issues underlying current research and set each chapter in context. The book is then divided into four parts. The first two discuss the properties of the conceptual to syntactic structure interface and the conceptual to spatial structure interface. Part three examines constraints on the lexical interface and the different kinds of cognitive information in word representations. Part four considers how the neural architecture of the brain constrains mapping relations between different kinds of cognitive information. The authors are psychologists and linguists. They show the insights that can be gained from the joint deployment of theoretical linguistic and experimental psychological research and the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind, brain, and language.

About Emile van der Zee (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside)

Emile van der Zee is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. His publications include Spatial Knowledge and Spatial Language. Urpo Nikanne is Professor of Finnish at the Department of East European and Oriental Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. His publications include 'Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax', Studies in Generative Grammar 39.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Cognitive Interfaces and Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information ; I: CONSTRAINTS ON THE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE TO SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE INTERFACE ; 2. Multiple Interfaces ; 3. Constituent Linking Between Conceptual Structure and Syntactic Structure ; II: CONSTRAINTS ON THE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE TO SPATIAL STRUCTURE INTERFACE ; 4. Some Restrictions in Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Movement ; 5. Object Use and Object Location: The effect of function on spatial relations ; 6. Retrieving Spatial Relations from Observation and Memory ; III: CONSTRAINTS ON THE LEXICAL INTERFACE ; 7. Why We can Talk about Bulging Barrels and Spinning Spirals: Curvature representation in the lexical interface ; IV: CONSTRAINTS ON 'INTERFACES' FROM A CONNECTIONISTIC PERSPECTIVE ; 8. Developing Relations ; 9. Temporal Bounds on Interfaces

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NPB9780198299615
9780198299615
0198299613
Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information by Emile van der Zee (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2001-02-01
272
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