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June 2006
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0-262-06253-4
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978-0-262-06253-4

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From Molecule to Metaphor
A Neural Theory of Language
Jerome A. Feldman

Preface
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Acknowledgmentsxix
I.Embodied Information Processing1
1.The Mystery of Embodied Language3
2.The Information Processing Perspective15
3.Computational Models29
II.How the Brain Computes41
4.Neurons and Other Cells43
5.The Society of Neurons59
6.Nature and Nurture71
III.How the Mind Computes83
7.Connections in the Mind85
8.Embodied Concepts and Their Words95
9.The Computational Bridge105
IV.Learning Concrete Words123
10.First Words125
11.Conceptual Schemas and Cultural Frames135
12.Learning Spatial Relation Words149
V.Learning Words for Actions161
13.Embodied Knowledge of Actions163
14.Learning Action Words173
VI.Abstract and Metaphorical Words183
15.Conceptual Systems185
16.Metaphors and Meaning199
17.Understanding as Simulation213
VII.Understanding Stories225
18.The Structure of Action and Events227
19.Belief and Inference235
20.Understanding News Stories245
VIII.Combining Form and Meaning257
21.Combining Forms -- Grammar259
22.The Language Wars271
23.Combining Meanings -- Embodied Construction Grammar283
IX.Embodied Language295
24.Embodied Language Understanding297
25.Learning Constructions311
26.Remaining Mysteries325
27.All Together Now333
References and Further Reading345
Index
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