ABSTRACT
This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing.
Divided into six sections, the edited volume presents arguments from evolutionist, developmental, behavioural and neurobiological perspectives, all of which point to a strong relationship between action and language. It provides a scientific basis for a new theoretical approach to language evolution, acquisition and use in humans, whilst at the same time assessing current debates on motor system’s contribution to the emergence of language acquisition, perception and production.
The chapters have been written by internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of disciplines, and as such this book will be of great interest to academics, students and professionals in the areas of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, psycholinguistics and philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|29 pages
Language and action
part II|49 pages
The motor origin of language
part III|78 pages
Action in language processing
part IV|31 pages
Action in language acquisition
chapter 8|16 pages
Motor skills and written language perception
part V|79 pages
Action in spatial language and numbers
chapter 13|27 pages
Horizontal spatial representations of number and time
part VI|48 pages
Language and action within the brain
chapter 14|11 pages
Embodied semantics for language related to actions
chapter 16|12 pages
When words trigger activity in the brain's sensory and motor systems
part VII|26 pages
Language and action in cognitive neuroscience