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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Nature of Language
    sub title: Evolution, Paradigms and Circuits
  name:
    name part: Hillert, Dieter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 201 p. 89 illus., 55 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The book The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive foundations of language processing? This monograph explores these questions from different perspectives to discuss the building blocks of language evolution and how they developed in the way they can be found in modern humans. Furthermore, primarily neural mapping methods of cognition presented in this research provide extremely valuable data about the neural circuitries that are involved in language processing. Thus, the book explores and illustrates cortical mapping in typical language patterns, but also cortical mapping in atypical populations that fail to process particular language aspects. In sum, an evolutionary stance is used to explore how language abilities of the Homo sapiens evolved to communicate for the purposes of conveying information, ideas, emotions, goals, humor, etc. This book presents an evolutionary language model that builds on the cognitive abilities of our evolutionary ancestors, and it allows readers to draw a variety of expansive conclusions from that, including the idea that human language as an interface system provides the basis for consciousness.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Evolution. - Chapter 1: The Human Lineage -- 1.1 An Overview -- 1.2 Fossil Evidence -- Chapter 2. Protomusic and Speech -- 2.1 The Role of Protomusic -- 2.2 Evolutionary Milestones -- Chapter 3. Genetic Foundations -- 3.1 Language-Related Genes -- 3.2 The Role of the Basal Ganglia -- Chapter 4. The Rise of Cognition -- 4.1 Comparative Studies -- 4.2 Proto-Cognition -- PART II. Paradigms -- Chapter 5. The Human Language System -- 5.1 Biological Disposition -- 5.2 Linguistic Wiring -- Chapter 6. Semantics and Syntax -- 6.1 Sentence Structures -- 6.2 Neural Nets -- Chapter 7. Lexical Concepts -- 7.1 Constructions -- 7.2 Mental Space -- Chapter 8. Figurative Language -- 8.1. Lexical Dark Matters -- 8.2 Idioms and Metaphors -- PART III. Circuits.-Chapter 9. Generating Sentences -- 9.1 Structural Complexity -- 9.2 The Role of Working Memory -- Chapter 10. Accessing Word Meanings -- 10.1 Lexical Concepts -- 10.2 Figures of Speech -- Chapter 11. Atypical Language -- 11.1 Aphasia -- 11.2 Communicative Disorders -- Chapter 12. Language Acquisition -- 12.1 The Genetic Program -- 12.2 The Multilingual Brain.-Prospects -- Index.
  note: by Dieter Hillert.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Neuropsychology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Neuropsychology
  classification: BF201
  classification: 153
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