Without language
There is a group of people who are effectively invisible, functioning adults with no language. They are there but we just not not met them. They are born completely deaf and are not taught sign...
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The Scientific American has an item by R.D. Fields about the research of U. Hasson (here). It compares the activity in a listener compared to a speaker. There have been many functional brain imaging...
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The where, when, how and why
A recent review article by Friedemann Pulvermuller looks at what is known about the neurobiology of language. He uses the question of what recent progress has been in the where, when, how and why of...
View ArticleSyntax in the mind
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } ScienceDaily has a report on a paper by K. Allen, S. Ibara, A. Seymour, and N. Botvinick published in Psychological Science, Abstract structural representations...
View ArticleAffirming
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } There is something comical about the frustrated using impossible means to an end example- in Fawlty Towers remember Basil punishing his car by beating it with a...
View ArticleEmbodied cognition – language
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } It is hard to overstate the importance of language but some manage it. Language has a very big billing by some people the singular mark of being human; the...
View ArticleBabel’s Dawn – the book
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } A number of years back I encountered a blog called Babel’s Dawn written by Edmund Blair Bolles. It is now inactive although all the postings are still on-line to...
View ArticleJust because Chomsky said it does not make it true
A recent blog by Dorothy Bishop (here) discusses the ideas of Noam Chomsky. It is easy to agree with her. I have thought for some time that the language that Chomsky talks about is not the language I...
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Word retrieval
When we attempt to find the word for something, related words are also accessed (as in word association, priming, freudian slips, and simple errors). But these related words are of two types,...
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Unconscious language and math
This paper (citation below) starts with the assumption (call the modal view) that, It is not surprising then that the modal view holds that the semantic processing of multiple-word expressions and...
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