Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language: 170 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Lamb, Sydney M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027236755 ISBN 13: 9789027236753

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1999

Synopsis

The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it represent information in symbols or in the connectivity of a vast network?Pathways of the Brain builds a theory to answer such questions. Using a top-down modeling strategy, it charts relationships among words and other products of the brain’s linguistic system to reveal properties of that system. Going beyond earlier linguistics, it sets three plausibility requirements for a valid neurocognitive theory: operational, developmental, and neurological: It must show how the linguistic system can operate for speaking and understanding, how it can be learned by children, and how it is implemented in neural structures. Unlike theories that leave linguistics isolated from science, it builds a bridge to biology.
Of interest to anthropologists, linguists, neurologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, and any thoughtful person interested in language or the brain.
The author is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.

About this title

Synopsis

A study of the relationship between language and thought, in order to guage how much of what we think we know comes just from operations of our thinking instruments. If they are faulty, how can they reach understanding about the world?

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027236755
• ISBN 13: 9789027236753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 428