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An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic
signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain's
internal construction process. When we read a text or listen to
speech, meaning seems to be given to us instantaneously, as if it
were part of the input. In Meaning in the Brain, Giosue Baggio
explains that this is an illusion created by the tremendous speed
at which sensory systems and systems for meaning and grammar
operate in the brain. Meaning, Baggio argues, is not derived from
input but results from the brain's internal construction process.
With this book, Baggio offers the first integrated, multilevel
theory of semantics in the brain, describing how meaning is
generated during language comprehension, production, and
acquisition. Baggio's theory draws on recent advances in formal
semantics and pragmatics, including vector-space semantics,
discourse representation theory, and signaling game theory. It is
designed to explain a growing body of experimental results on
semantic processing that have accumulated in the absence of a
unifying theory since the introduction of electrophysiology and
neuroimaging methods. Baggio argues that there is evidence for the
existence of three semantic systems in the brain-relational
semantics, interpretive semantics, and evolutionary semantics-and
he discusses each in turn, developing neural theories of meaning
for all three. Moreover, in the course of his argument, Baggio
addresses several long-standing issues in the neuroscience of
language, including the role of compositionality as a principle of
meaning construction in the brain, the role of sensory-motor
processes in language comprehension, and the neural and
evolutionary links among meaning, consciousness, sociality, and
action.
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