Meaning and the brain: The neurosemantics of referential, interactive, and combinatorial knowledge

Pulvermüller, Friedemann

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.03.004

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“…One strand argues that activity outside the left perisylvian areas is epiphenomenal to language understanding, and reflects purely correlational, downstream activity, not necessary for efficient extraction of meaning from linguistic input (Mahon and Caramazza 2008). Others, however, have proposed that language has an additional basis in modality-specific areas, particularly sensorimotor ones, and that the functional contribution of these areas becomes readily apparent when we look at comprehension of specific semantic categories (Pulvermüller 2011). Thus, there is presently a lack of consensus in the literature regarding the involvement of sensorimotor areas in language comprehension, highlighting the need for additional research.…”

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Primary motor cortex functionally contributes to language comprehension: An online rTMS study

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ABSTRACT:Among various questions pertinent to grounding human cognitive functions in a neurobiological substrate, the association between language and motor brain structures is a particularly debated one in neuroscience and psychology. While many studies support a broadly distributed model of language and semantics grounded, among other things, in the general modality-specific systems, theories disagree as to whether motor and sensory cortex activity observed during language processing is functional or epiphenomenal. Here, we assessed the role of motor areas in linguistic processing by investigating the responses of 28 healthy volunteers to different word types in semantic and lexical decision tasks, following repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of primary motor cortex. We found that early rTMS (delivered within 200 ms of word onset) produces a left-lateralised and meaning-specific change in reaction speed, slowing down behavioural responses to action-related words, and facilitating abstract words -an effect present only during semantic, but not lexical, decision. We interpret these data in light of action-perception theory of language, bolstering the claim that motor cortical areas play a functional role in language comprehension.2

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“…En esta línea queremos destacar el enfoque de la web funcional (presente en autores como Lamb, 1999Lamb, y 2004Pulvermüller, 2001Pulvermüller, , 2005Pulvermüller, , 2012Pulvermüller, y 2013Kiefer y Pulvermüller, 2012, entre otros), inspirado en el modelo de asambleas celulares de Hebb (1949) y en su actual formulación matemática como atractor neuronal (cf. Cree, McRae y McNorgan, 1999), como fundamento de la plasticidad cerebral y del aprendizaje.…”

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Consideraciones sobre la polivalencia del término asociación desde la perspectiva neurocognitiva del léxico

Varo

2018

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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Resumen: Las nociones de asociación y asociativo, presentes en los estudios léxicos desde los albores de la lingüística moderna, han sido objeto de múltiples interpretaciones conceptuales no exentas de problemas. Las concepciones de relación asociativa como conexión entre las dos caras psicológicas del signo lingüístico y como conjunto de relaciones en ausencia conviven, especialmente en los diccionarios de lingüística, con la interpretación casi antagónica de asociativo ligada a la connotación, como relación de sentido que no forma parte del significado de la palabra. Frente a ello, los actuales avances en la investigación neurocognitiva del léxico, que han contribuido a la reconstrucción del sistema semántico desde una perspectiva cerebral, necesariamente nos conducen a una nueva interpretación de estas nociones que se traslada desde el nivel de la palabra al de los rasgos que configuran las estructuras tanto formal como semántica de ésta Palabras clave: relación asociativa, asociación semántica, significado léxico, sentido, redes léxicas. SOME REMARKS ON THE POLYVALENCE OF THE TERM ASSOCIATION FROM A NEUROCOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE OF THE LEXICONAbstract: The concepts of association and associative are present in lexical studies since the dawn of modern linguistics. They have been the subject of multiple conceptual interpretations but not without problems. Both conceptions of associative relationship as a connection between the two psychological faces of the linguistic sign and as in absentia relationships coexist, especially in Linguistics dictionaries, with the interpretation (almost opposite) as connotation or, in other words, as a sense relationship which lies outside of word meaning. In contrast, current advances in the neurocognitive research of the lexicon, which have contributed to the reconstruction of the semantic system from a cerebral perspective, lead us necessarily to a new interpretation of these notions that is transferred from the word level to its formal and semantic traits.Keywords: associative relation, semantic association, lexical meaning, sense, lexical networks. INTRODUCCIÓNLas nociones de asociación y asociativo, sin duda, destacan por sus importantes implicaciones en Semántica léxica 1 , sobre todo desde principios del siglo XX. Ciertamente, la doctrina filosófica asociacionista, que se remonta a Aristóteles y que en especial es desarrollada por los filósofos ingleses de los siglos XVII y XVIII, con la formulación de las leyes de asociación basadas en la contigüidad, la semejanza y el contraste, encontraron simultáneamente eco tanto en la Psicología como en la Lingüística modernas. En tanto que los psicólogos partidarios de este enfoque encuentran en la asociación de ideas la base del conocimiento y describen las ideas complejas a partir de la combinación de ideas primitivas, derivadas en última instancia de la experiencia sensorial, los lingüistas, tras abandonar el enfoque diacrónico y naturalista del siglo XIX, adoptan esta perspectiva como fundamento de los sistemas lingüísticos. 1Est...

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“…In a long review of this approach to creative thought Simonton [21] shows that abstract combinatorial models are supported by experimental cognitive psychology, and may be related to personality traits, developmental factors, and social contexts. Computational models of BVSR or other processes related to thinking are quite difficult to make, as representations of concepts in the brain involves many areas distributed around the brain [22], [23], [24]. Although some attempts have been made to implement the meaning of general concepts in neural networks [25] without explicit model of perception recreation of natural associations and thus meaning may not be feasible.…”

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Braingene: Computational creativity algorithm that invents novel interesting names

Pilichowski

Duch

2013

2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-Like Intelligence (CIHLI)

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Abstract-Human-level intelligence implies creativity, not only on the grand scale, but primarily in the everyday activity, such as understanding intentions, behavior, and invention of new words. Psychological models of creativity have some support in experimental cognitive psychology, but computational models of creative processes are quite rare. This paper presents a model of creative processes behind invention of novel words related to description of products and services.

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Meaning and the brain: The neurosemantics of referential, interactive, and combinatorial knowledge

Cited by 107 publications

References 219 publications

Primary motor cortex functionally contributes to language comprehension: An online rTMS study

Primary motor cortex functionally contributes to language comprehension: An online rTMS study

Consideraciones sobre la polivalencia del término asociación desde la perspectiva neurocognitiva del léxico

Braingene: Computational creativity algorithm that invents novel interesting names

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