Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Arbib, Michael A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Mirror neurons may hold the brain's key to social interaction - each coding not only a particular action or emotion but also the recognition of that action or emotion in others. The Mirror System Hypothesis adds an evolutionary arrow to the story - from the mirror system for hand actions, shared with monkeys and chimpanzees, to the uniquely human mirror system for language. In this accessible volume, experts from child development, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, primatology and robotics present and analyse the mirror system and show how studies of action and language can illuminate each other. Topics discussed in the fifteen chapters include: what do chimpanzees and humans have in common? Does the human capability for language rest on brain mechanisms shared with other animals? How do human infants acquire language? What can be learned from imaging the human brain? How are sign- and spoken-language related? Will robots learn to act and speak like humans?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511242984
• Artikelnr.: 38213747

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Arbib is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, as well as a Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), which he joined in 1986. He has been named as one of a small group of university professors at USC in recognition of his contributions across many disciplines.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Two Perspectives: 1. The mirror system hypothesis on the
linkage of action and languages Michael Arbib; 2. The origin and evolution
of language: a plausible, strong-AI account Jerry Hobbs; Part II. Brain,
Evolution and Comparative Analysis: 3. Cognition, imitation and culture in
the great apes Craig Stanford; 4. The signer as an embodied mirror neuron:
neural systems underlying sign language and action Karen Emmorey; 5. Neural
homologies and the grounding of neurolinguistics Michael Arbib and Mihail
Bota; Part III. Dynamical Systems in Action and Language: 6. Dynamical
systems: brain, body and imitation Stefan Schaal; 7. The role of vocal
tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology
Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd and Elliot Saltzman; 8. Lending a helping hand
to hearing: a motor theory of speech perception Jeremy I. Skipper, Howard
C. Nusbaum and Steven L. Small; Part IV. From Mirror System to Syntax and
Theory of Mind: 9. Attention and the minimal subscene Laurent Itti and
Michael Arbib; 10. Action verbs, argument structure constructions, and the
mirror neuron system David Kemmerer; 11. Linguistic corpora and theory of
mind Andrew Gordon; Part V. Development of Action and Language: 12. The
development of grasping and the mirror system Erhan Oztop, Nina Bradley and
Michael Arbib; 13. Development of goal-directed imitation, object
manipulation and language in humans and robots Iona D. Goga and Aude
Billard; 14. Affordances, effectivities and the mirror system in child
development Patricia Zukow-Goldring; 15. Implications of mirror neurons for
the ontogeny and phylogeny of cultural processes: the examples of tools and
language Patricia Greenfield.