Language, Evolution, and the Brain - Softcover

Minett, James W.; Wang, William S-Y.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9629371650 ISBN 13: 9789629371654

Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2009

Synopsis

This volume consists of an important collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Language, Evolution, and the Brain (SLEB), hosted by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Kyoto, Japan by bringing together distinguished researchers with backgrounds in cognitive science, anthropology, linguistics, robotics, physics, etc.

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About the Author

James W. MINETT is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include electroencephalography (EEG), language and the brain, the computational modeling of language emergence, change and death, and the development of quantitative methods for historical linguistics.

William S-Y. WANG is Wei Lun Research Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong based in the Department of Electronic Engineering, with affiliations to the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of Translation, and the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. He is an Academician of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan). He has published widely for both technical and general readerships, including articles in American Scientist, Nature, Scientific American, as well as in many encyclopedias. He has long been involved in evolutionary studies of language from a multi-disciplinary perspective, particularly the biological and computer sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9629371650
• ISBN 13: 9789629371654
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 307