The Spatial Foundation Of Cognition And Language
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| Author | : Kelly S. Mix |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199553246 |
This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning. Experimental psychologists, computer scientists, robotocists, linguists, and researchers in child language consider the nature and applications of this research and its implications for understanding the processes involved in language acquisition.
| Author | : Linda Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2009 |
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| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-04 |
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| ISBN | : 9780199553259 |
| Author | : Ray Jackendoff |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2002-01-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191574015 |
How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes on to propose a radical re-conception of how the brain processes language. This opens up vivid new perspectives on every major aspect of language and communication, including grammar, vocabulary, learning, the origins of human language, and how language relates to the real world. Foundations of Language makes important connections with other disciplines which have been isolated from linguistics for many years. It sets a new agenda for close cooperation between the study of language, mind, the brain, behaviour, and evolution.
| Author | : Kelly S. Mix |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2009-04-01 |
| Genre | : Child development |
| ISBN | : 9780199553259 |
| Author | : Seán Ó Nualláin |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781556198427 |
"Spatial Cognition" brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The technological applications adding dynamism to the area include computer interfaces, educational software, multimedia, and in-car navigation systems. On the experimental level, themes as varied as gender differences in orientation and of course, wholly unrelated the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation are described. Much detailed analysis and computational modeling of the structure of short term memory (STM) is discussed. The papers were presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, Mind III. (Series B)
| Author | : Stephen C. Levinson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2003-03-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521011969 |
Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate systems in language and cognition, it is shown that not all languages use all types, and that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the systems available in the local language. The book reports on collaborative, interdisciplinary research, involving anthropologists, linguists and psychologists, conducted in many languages and cultures around the world, which establishes this robust correlation. The overall results suggest that thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the transformative power of language on thinking. The book will be of interest to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers, and especially to students of spatial cognition.
| Author | : D.M. Mark |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 509 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9401126062 |
This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.
| Author | : Christian Freksa |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2003-05-20 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3540693424 |
Research on spatial cognition is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary enterprise for the study of spatial representations and cognitive spatial processes, be they real or abstract, human or machine. Spatial cognition brings together a variety of - search methodologies: empirical investigations on human and animal orientation and navigation; studies of communicating spatial knowledge using language and graphical or other pictorial means; the development of formal models for r- resenting and processing spatial knowledge; and computer implementations to solve spatial problems, to simulate human or animal orientation and navigation behavior, or to reproduce spatial communication patterns. These approaches can interact in interesting and useful ways: Results from empirical studies call for formal explanations both of the underlying memory structures and of the processes operating upon them; we can develop and - plement operational computer models obeying the relationships between objects and events described by the formal models; we can empirically test the computer models under a variety of conditions, and we can compare the results to the - sults from the human or animal experiments. A disagreement between these results can provide useful indications towards the re nement of the models.
| Author | : Pierre R. Dasen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-08-12 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1139488007 |
Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates ('put the knife to the east, and the fork to the west'). How do children learn to use geocentric language? And why do geocentric spatial references sound strange in English when they are standard practice in other languages? This book studies child development in Bali, India, Nepal, and Switzerland and explores how children learn to use a geocentric frame both when speaking and performing non-verbal cognitive tasks (such as remembering locations and directions). The authors examine how these skills develop with age, look at the socio-cultural contexts in which the learning takes place, and explore the ecological, cultural, social, and linguistic conditions that favor the use of a geocentric frame of reference.
