Cognitive Interfaces
Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information
Published on 1. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-19-829962-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous line figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829962-2 (9780198299622)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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