Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Abstract “Embodied” proposals claim that the meaning of at least some words, concepts and
constructions is grounded in knowledge about actions and objects. An alternative …

This book brings together the outcome of ten years of research. It is based on a simple
project, which was begun towards the end of the 1990s: information is a crucial concept …

Previous research showed that modality-preferential sensorimotor areas are relevant for
processing concrete words used to speak about actions. However, whether modality …

In the nineteen eighties, a lot of ink was spent on the question of symbol grounding, largely
triggered by Searle's Chinese Room story (Searle, 1980). Searle's article had the advantage …

Many animals can be trained to perform novel tasks. People, too, can be trained, but
sometime in early childhood people transition from being trainable to something qualitatively …

A neurobiologically constrained deep neural network mimicking cortical area function
relevant for sensorimotor, linguistic and conceptual processing was used to investigate the …

Neural networks are successfully used to imitate and model cognitive processes. However,
to provide clues about the neurobiological mechanisms enabling human cognition, these …

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …

This article reviews eight proposed strategies for solving the symbol grounding problem
(SGP), which was given its classic formulation in Harnad. After a concise introduction, the …