The Nature of Language - Evolution, Paradigms and Circuits (Hardcover, 2014)

Neurobiology 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 involved in language processing. Thus, it 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.This approach allows us to therefore draw a variety of expansive conclusions including the idea that human language as an interface system provides the basis for consciousness.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Dieter Hillert
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	201
Edition:	2014
ISBN-13:	978-1-4939-0608-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4939-0608-9
Barcode:	9781493906086

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