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Meaning in the brain
An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to be given to us instantaneously, as if it were part of the input. In Meaning in the Brain, Giosue Baggio explains that this is an illusion created by the tremendous speed at which…
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- 9780262347198
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 348 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color)
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Imagination and the meaningful brain
"A Bradford book."The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of…
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- 9780262280044
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages)
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- Philosophical Psychopathology
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- 150 MOD i
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