Cognitive Interfaces

Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-829962-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

This book seeks to explain fundamental aspects of the relationship between language and cognition. It brings new perspectives to bear on the architecture of mind and brain and explores the relationship between language and cognition. It considers how information is linked between different cognitive levels so that, for example, it is possible to explain how people can talk about what they see.

In the opening chapter the editors address the general issues underlying current research on cognitive interfaces and set each chapter in context. The book is then divided into four parts. Parts One and Two discuss the properties of two interfaces: (a) the conceptual-to-syntactic structure interface and (b) the conceptual-to-spatial structure interface. Part Three examines
constraints on the lexical interface by looking at properties of the former two interfaces at the word level. Part Four considers how the neural architecture of the brain constrains mapping relations between different kinds of cognitive information.

The authors, drawn from experimental psychology, linguistics, and computer science, together offer a convincing demonstration of the value of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how different kinds of cognitive information are linked in the mind and brain to perform different cognitive tasks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zee, Emile Van Der

Zee, Emile van der

Nikanne, Urpo

Fachgebiete

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