Formal Neurosemantics. Logic, meaning and composition in the Brain

Panizza, Daniele

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“…Substantially fewer studies have examined how the brain processes compositional aspects of meaning (for reviews see Pylkkänen et al, 2011; Panizza, 2012) and how context and discourse interact with meaning (see Van Berkum, 2009). Scalar implicatures offer a promising test case for these issues, given that they represent an aspect of meaning that is composed in concert with semantic meaning and that the generation of scalar implicatures is strongly affected by context and expectations about speakers.…”

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“…Recent investigations suggest that the patterns of brain activation elicited by violations of real-world plausibility are not the same as those elicited by linguistically-motivated abstract operations such as semantic composition (Pylkkänen et al, 2011), licensing of negative polarity items (Steinhauer et al, 2010; Panizza, 2012) and semantic subcategorization (Kuperberg et al, 2000). In our experiments we found that quantifiers which were pragmatically inconsistent with a context elicited a qualitatively different ERP response than quantifiers which were semantically inconsistent, suggesting that they were processed by different mechanisms.…”

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Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: An event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification

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The present study examines the brain-level representation and composition of meaning in scalar quantifiers (e.g., some), which have both a semantic meaning (at least one) and a pragmatic meaning (not all). We adopted a picture-sentence verification design to examine event-related potential (ERP) effects of reading infelicitous quantifiers for which the semantic meaning was correct with respect to the context but the pragmatic meaning was not, compared to quantifiers for which the semantic meaning was inconsistent with the context and no additional pragmatic meaning is available. In the first experiment, only pragmatically inconsistent quantifiers, not semantically inconsistent quantifiers, elicited a sustained posterior negative component. This late negativity contrasts with the N400 effect typically elicited by nouns that are incongruent with their context, suggesting that the recognition of scalar implicature errors elicits a qualitatively different ERP signature than the recognition of lexico-semantic errors. We hypothesize that the sustained negativity reflects cancellation of the pragmatic inference and retrieval of the semantic meaning. In our second experiment, we found that the process of re-interpreting the quantifier was independent from lexico-semantic processing: the N400 elicited by lexico-semantic violations was not modulated by the presence of a pragmatic inconsistency. These findings suggest that inferential pragmatic aspects of meaning are processed using different mechanisms than lexical or combinatorial semantic aspects of meaning, that inferential pragmatic meaning can be realized rapidly, and that the computation of meaning involves continuous negotiation between different aspects of meaning.

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“…We predicted that highly-skilled performers would be relatively 173 immune to the effects of avoidant instructions because they have more conscious 174 attentional resources available to enable them to process the demonstrably complex 175 demands of this type of instruction (Janelle, 1999). Interestingly, recent cognitive 176 research (e.g., Panizza, 2012) shows that the comprehension of negative sentences or 177 instructions requires more attentional resources than does that of positive equivalents. 178 A likely explanation for this effect comes from the fact that the meaning of negated 179 instructions can be understood only after a cognitive representation of the positive 180 equivalent has been created.…”

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The effects of avoidant instructions on golf putting proficiency and kinematics

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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“…naturalistic methods apply quantification and statistics to phenomena that are intangible to measuring devices. in short, what the natural psychological sciences like neurosemantics share are attempts to represent consciousness and maintain natural psychological science (Panizza 2012, Pulvermuller 2012. the phenomenological point is to create an accurate narrative concerning how people experience verbal and nonverbal meaning.…”

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Phenomenology in Action in Psychotherapy

Owen

2015

Contributions to Phenomenology

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Contributions to Phenomenologyin CooPeration with the Center for advanCed researCh in Phenomenology volume 79 series editors: nicolas de warren, leuven, belgium dermot moran, university College dublin, dublin, ireland editorial board: lilian alweiss, trinity College dublin, ireland elizabeth behnke, ferndale, wa, usa michael barber, st. louis university, mo, usa rudolf bernet, husserl-archief, Katholieke universiteit leuven, belgium david Carr, emory university, ga, usa Chan-fai Cheung, Chinese university hong Kong, China James dodd, new school university, ny, usa lester embree, florida atlantic university, fl, usa alfredo ferrarin, università di Pisa, italy burt hopkins, seattle university, wa, usa José huertas-Jourda,wilfrid laurier university, Canada Kwok-ying lau, Chinese university hong Kong, China nam-in lee, seoul national university, Korea rosemary r.P. lerner, Pontificia universidad Católica del Perú, Peru dieter lohmar, universität zu Köln, germany william r. mcKenna, miami university, oh, usa algis mickunas, ohio university, oh, usa J.n. mohanty, temple university, Pa, usaJunichi murata, university of tokyo, Japan thomas nenon, the university of memphis, tn, usa thomas m. seebohm, Johannes gutenberg-universität, germany gail soffer, rome, italy anthony steinbock, southern illinois university at Carbondale, il, usa shigeru taguchi, yamagata university, Japan dan Zahavi, university of Copenhagen, denmark richard m. Zaner, vanderbilt university, tn, usa the purpose of the series is to serve as a vehicle for the pursuit of phenomenological research across a broad spectrum, including cross-over developments with other fields of inquiry such as the social sciences and cognitive science. since its establishment in 1987, Contributions to Phenomenology has published more than 80 titles on diverse themes of phenomenological philosophy. in addition to welcoming monographs and collections of papers in established areas of scholarship, the series encourages original work in phenomenology. the breadth and depth of the series reflects the rich and varied significance of phenomenological thinking for seminal questions of human inquiry as well as the increasingly international reach of phenomenological research. the series is published in cooperation with the Center for advanced research in Phenomenology.all books to be published in this series will be fully peer-reviewed before final acceptance. more information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5811 ian rory owen Phenomenology in Action in Psychotherapy on Pure Psychology and its Applications in Psychotherapy and mental health Care 2123 issn 0923-9545 Contributions to Phenomenology isbn 978-3-319-13604-2 isbn 978-3-319-13605-9 (ebook)

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Formal Neurosemantics. Logic, meaning and composition in the Brain

Cited by 9 publications

References 66 publications

Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: An event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification

Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: An event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification

The effects of avoidant instructions on golf putting proficiency and kinematics

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