ABSTRACT
Neurosemiotics aims to identify and explain the neural processes and mechanisms that manifest as sign-relations in the animal kingdom, thereby supplying semiotic models to neurobiological accounts. Here, we (1) provide a brief account of the history of neurosemiotics; (2) review the approaches, scope, and aims of neurosemiotic research; (3) formulate the general problems of neurosemiotics; (4) specify some features of the neural system that are relevant for semiosis; and (5) describe some general characteristics of neurosemiosis. Given its breadth and nature, neurosemiotic research may strongly influence general semiotics, neurobiology, cognitive science, and consciousness studies, in a virtuous give-and-take with the fields that give it substance.
