Image, Language, Brain: Papers from the First Mind Articulation Project Symposium

✍ Scribed by Alec Marantz, Yasushi Miyashita, Wayne O'Neil

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent attempts to unify linguistic theory and brain science have grown out of recognition that a proper understanding of language in the brain must reflect the steady advances in linguistic theory of the last forty years. The first Mind Articulation Project Symposium addressed two main questions: How can the understanding of language from linguistic research be transformed through the study of the biological basis of language? And how can our understanding of the brain be transformed through this same research? The best model so far of such mutual constraint is research on vision. Indeed, the two long-term goals of the Project are to make linguistics and brain science mutually constraining in the way that has been attempted in the study of the visual system and to formulate a cognitive theory that more strongly constrains visual neuroscience. The papers in this volume discuss the current status of the cognitive/neuroscience synthesis in research on vision, whether and how linguistics and neuroscience can be integrated, and how integrative brain mechanisms can be studied through the use of noninvasive brain-imaging techniques. Contributors Noam Chomsky, Ann Christophe, Robert Desimone, Richard Frackowiak, Angela Friederici, Edward Gibson, Peter Indefrey, Masao Ito, Willem Levelt, Alec Marantz, Jacques Mehler, Yasushi Miyashita, David Poeppel, Franck Ramus, John Reynolds, Kensuke Sekihara, Hiroshi Shibasaki.

✦ Table of Contents

cover......Page 1
Contents
......Page 2
Preface......Page 4
Introduction......Page 8
chap1......Page 17
chap2......Page 33
chap3......Page 55
chap4......Page 80
chap5......Page 97
chap6-The Neuronal Dynamics of Auditory Language
Comprehension......Page 145
chap7......Page 167
chap8......Page 181
chap9......Page 198
chap10......Page 211
chap11......Page 246
chap12......Page 261
Contributors......Page 283