Image, language, brain. Papers from the First Mind Articulation Project Symposium.

MARANTZ, ALEC, YASUSHI MIYASHITA, and WAYNE O'NEIL (eds.).

ISBN 10: 0262133717 / ISBN 13: 9780262133715

Published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000

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Orig. cloth. With dustjacket. x,272 pp.: ill.; 24 cm. Text in English (previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise as new. Revised papers from a symposium held November 16-17, 1998 in Tokyo. 890g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Image, language, brain. Papers from the First Mind Articulation Project Symposium.
• Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262133717
• ISBN 13: 9780262133715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 890 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The papers in this volume discuss the current status of the cognitive/neuroscience synthesis in research on vision, whether and how linguistics and neuroscience can be integrated, and how integrative brain mechanisms can be studied through the use of noninvasive brain-imaging techniques.

Recent attempts to unify linguistic theory and brain science have grown out of recognition that a proper understanding of language in the brain must reflect the steady advances in linguistic theory of the last forty years. The first Mind Articulation Project Symposium addressed two main questions: How can the understanding of language from linguistic research be transformed through the study of the biological basis of language? And how can our understanding of the brain be transformed through this same research? The best model so far of such mutual constraint is research on vision. Indeed, the two long-term goals of the Project are to make linguistics and brain science mutually constraining in the way that has been attempted in the study of the visual system and to formulate a cognitive theory that more strongly constrains visual neuroscience.

The papers in this volume discuss the current status of the cognitive/neuroscience synthesis in research on vision, whether and how linguistics and neuroscience can be integrated, and how integrative brain mechanisms can be studied through the use of noninvasive brain-imaging techniques.

Contributors
Noam Chomsky, Ann Christophe, Robert Desimone, Richard Frackowiak, Angela Friederici, Edward Gibson, Peter Indefrey, Masao Ito, Willem Levelt, Alec Marantz, Jacques Mehler, Yasushi Miyashita, David Poeppel, Franck Ramus, John Reynolds, Kensuke Sekihara, Hiroshi Shibasaki

About the Author

Alec Marantz is Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at New York University.