On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at Its Core - Hardcover

 
9780190464783: On Concepts, Modules, and Language: Cognitive Science at Its Core
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 019046478X ISBN 13: 9780190464783
Publisher: OUP USA, 2017

Synopsis

Leading cognitive scientists examine their own work in relation to one of cognitive science's most influential and polemical figures: Jerry Fodor.

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About the Author

Roberto G. de Almeida is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Concordia University, in Montreal. He received his PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University (under the supervision of Jerry Fodor). His theoretical and empirical work is on the nature of lexical concepts, in particular on verb meaning, and on the nature of semantic composition. He co-edited with Christina Manoulidou the volume Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing (2015).

Lila R. Gleitman is an Emerita Professor in the Department of Psychology and the founding Director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science with A. Joshi at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research concerns the mental lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface, language acquisition, and the relation between language and thought.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019046478X
ISBN 13 
9780190464783
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
328
Editor
De Almeida Roberto G., Gleitman Lila R.