Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information

by Emile van de Zee, Urpo Nikanne

Overview

This book brings new perspectives to bear on the architecture of the mind and the relationship between language and cognition. It considers how information is linked in the mind between different cognitive and expressive levels - so that people can, for example, talk about what they see and act upon what they hear - and how these linkages are and need to be constrained. The book is concerned in particular with the perception and representation of spatial structure. The authors, all psychologists and linguists, show that insights can be gained from the joint deployment of theoretical linguistic and experimental psychological research and the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind, brain, and language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198299622
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	04/12/2001
Series:	Oxford Linguistics Series
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

University of Lincolnshire & Humberside

University of Oslo

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Cognitive Interfaces and Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information, Emile van der Zee and Urpo Nikanne
I: Constraints on the Conceptual Structure to Syntactic Structure Interface
2. Multiple Interfaces, Christer Platzack
3. Constituent Linking Between Conceptual Structure and Syntactic Structure, Lars Hellan
II: Constraints on the Conceptual Structure to Spatial Structure Interface
4. Some Restrictions in Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Movement, Urpo Nikanne
5. Object Use and Object Location: The effect of function on spatial relations, Laura Carlson-Radvansky
6. Retrieving Spatial Relations from Observation and Memory, David J. Bryant, Barbara Tversky, and Margaret Lanca
III: Constraints on the Lexical Interface
7. Why We can Talk about Bulging Barrels and Spinning Spirals: Curvature representation in the lexical interface, Emile van der Zee
IV: Constraints on 'Interfaces' from a Connectionistic Perspective
8. Developing Relations, Michael Gasser, Eliana Colunga, and Linda B. Smith
9. Temporal Bounds on Interfaces, Jon Slack