Cognitive Interfaces

Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-829961-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zee, Emile Van Der

Zee, Emile van der

Nikanne, Urpo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Emile van der Zee and Urpo Nikanne: Introducing Cognitive Interfaces and Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information

- I: Constraints on the Conceptual Structure to Syntactic Structure Interface

- 2: Christer Platzack: Multiple Interfaces

- 3: Lars Hellan: Constituent Linking Between Conceptual Structure and Syntactic Structure

- II: Constraints on the Conceptual Structure to Spatial Structure Interface

- 4: Urpo Nikanne: Some Restrictions in Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Movement

- 5: Laura Carlson-Radvansky: Object Use and Object Location: The effect of function on spatial relations

- 6: David J. Bryant, Barbara Tversky, and Margaret Lanca: Retrieving Spatial Relations from Observation and Memory

- III: Constraints on the Lexical Interface

- 7: Emile van der Zee: 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: Michael Gasser, Eliana Colunga, and Linda B. Smith: Developing Relations

- 9: Jon Slack: Temporal Bounds on Interfaces

Über Autor(innen)

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.