Cognition and the Symbolic Processes

Applied and Ecological Perspectives

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Published April 1, 1991 by Lawrence Erlbaum .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Psychology,
• General,
• Cognitive Psychology,
• Speech,
• Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech,
• Cognition,
• Perception,
• Psycholinguistics

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Edition Notes

Contributions	Robert R. Hoffman (Editor), David S. Palermo (Editor)
The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	552
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL7936424M
ISBN 10	080580904X
ISBN 10	9780805809046

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Reading is the complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. It is a form of language processing.. Success in this process is measured as reading g is a means for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information and ideas. The symbols are typically visual (written or printed) but may be tactile ().Like all languages, it is a complex. The current article gives an overview of the symbolic and embodied cognition accounts and shows how meaning induction attributed to a specific statistical process or to activation of embodied.

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The Symbolic Species is a book by biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon on the evolution of ing perspectives from neurobiology, evolutionary theory, linguistics, and semiotics, Deacon proposes that language, along with the unique human capacity for symbolic thought, co-evolved with the brain.. The Symbolic Species is a multi-disclipinary book that at the time of Author: Terrence W. Deacon. In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel. Resisting the conventional wisdom that says that if the mind is a large neural network it cannot simultaneously be a manipulator of. His book, The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. His approach to semiotics, thoroughly described in the book, is fueled by a career-long interest in the ideas of the late 19th-century American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce.