Language and cognition—joint acquisition, dual hierarchy, and emotional prosody

Perlovsky, Leonid

doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00123

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“…First, Perlovsky ( 2013 ) introduces joint acquisition, dual hierarchy, and emotional prosody of language and cognition, such that emotional prosody may perform a fundamental function in connecting sounds and meanings of words. Vicario ( 2013 ) discusses about FOXP2 gene and language development, which might inform us about the origin of language.…”

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Language and Cognition

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2014

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Language and Cognition

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2014

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“…Dynamic logic , DL, is a mathematical technique modeling the brain-mind mechanism of matching vague models to crisp projections from the retina (Perlovsky, 2001, 2006a, 2013c; Perlovsky et al, 2011). Adequacy of DL vague-to-crisp process has been experimentally proven in (Bar et al, 2006; Kveraga et al, 2007).…”

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“…DL is a process-logic, it avoids logical states until the very end of the DL-process (Perlovsky, 2006a, 2013c). This is essential because CC has been shown to be equivalent to Gödelian incompleteness of logic when applied to finite systems, such as computers or brains (Perlovsky, 2013d).…”

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“…Ancient emotions determined by language sounds and unrelated to semantic contents do not interfere with the thought train. English is very good for science and engineering (Perlovsky, 2013c, 2016a). The other side of low emotionality is that English is losing historical connections of value words to cultural values evolving over millennia.…”

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Physics of the Mind

Perlovsky

2016

Front. Syst. Neurosci.

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Is it possible to turn psychology into “hard science”? Physics of the mind follows the fundamental methodology of physics in all areas where physics have been developed. What is common among Newtonian mechanics, statistical physics, quantum physics, thermodynamics, theory of relativity, astrophysics… and a theory of superstrings? The common among all areas of physics is a methodology of physics discussed in the first few lines of the paper. Is physics of the mind possible? Is it possible to describe the mind based on the few first principles as physics does? The mind with its variabilities and uncertainties, the mind from perception and elementary cognition to emotions and abstract ideas, to high cognition. Is it possible to turn psychology and neuroscience into “hard” sciences? The paper discusses established first principles of the mind, their mathematical formulations, and a mathematical model of the mind derived from these first principles, mechanisms of concepts, emotions, instincts, behavior, language, cognition, intuitions, conscious and unconscious, abilities for symbols, functions of the beautiful and musical emotions in cognition and evolution. Some of the theoretical predictions have been experimentally confirmed. This research won national and international awards. In addition to summarizing existing results the paper describes new development theoretical and experimental. The paper discusses unsolved theoretical problems as well as experimental challenges for future research.

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“…Near the bottom of the hierarchy the knowledge is embodied in direct experience. “Higher up” representations of abstract knowledge cannot be embodied in direct experience, because abstract knowledge does not exist in the world “ready-made.” These representations are learned from personal experience under the guidance of language (Perlovsky, 2013b ). Abstract knowledge exists in language, where it has been created during millennia of cultural evolution.…”

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