Offers a novel, neurocognitive theory of lexical semantic competence

Combines neuroscientific analysis with insights from the philosophical and linguistic traditions

Sits at the intersection between philosophical semantics, linguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology

Offers a novel, neurocognitive theory of lexical semantic competence Combines neuroscientific analysis with insights from the philosophical and linguistic traditions Sits at the intersection between philosophical semantics, linguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology

Autorentext

Fabrizio Calzavarini is a Post doc Researcher at University of Bergamo, Italy, and is affiliated at with the Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition, Turin, Italy. His research is organized into two interrelated streams. One stream falls at the intersection between the philosophy and neuroscience of semantics, focusing on the neural substrates of lexical competence. The other stream addresses philosophical issues in neuroscience more generally. He is the co-organizer of Neural Mechanisms Online, a series of webinars and web-conferences in the philosophy of neuroscience.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Formal semantics and the problem of word meaning.- Chapter 2. The structure of inferential competence.- Chapter 3. The structure of referential competence.- Chapter 4. Functional dissociation.- Chapter 5. Anatomical dissociation.- Chapter 6. The neural substrates of inferential and referential competence.- Chapter 7. Inferential and referential competence and the Embodied Framework.- Chapter 8. Dual pictures of semantic cognition?.- Chapter 9 Conclusions.