InFrom Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a \\\"bridging theory\\\" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out. Feldman develops his theory in computer simulations—formal models that suggest ways that language and thought may be realized in the brain. Combining key findings and theories from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, Feldman synthesizes a theory by exhibiting programs that demonstrate the required behavior while remaining consistent with the findings from all disciplines.After presenting the essential results on language, learning, neural computation, the biology of neurons and neural circuits, and the mind/brain, Feldman introduces specific demonstrations and formal models of such topics as how children learn their first words, words for abstract and metaphorical concepts, understanding stories, and grammar (including \\\"hot-button\\\" issues surrounding the innateness of human grammar). With this accessible, comprehensive book Feldman offers readers who want to understand how our brains create thought and language a theory of language that is intuitively plausible and also consistent with existing scientific data at all levels 作者简介；Jerome A. Feldman is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and former Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute. Contents: From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language Part 1. Embodied Information Processing 1. The Mystery of Embodied Language 2. The Information Processing Perspective 3. Computational Models
Part 2. How the Brain Computes 4. Neurons and Other Cells 5. The Society of Neurons 6. Nature and Nurture
Part 3. How the Mind Computes 7. Connections in the Mind 8. Embodied Concepts and Words 9. The Computational Bridge
Part 4. Learning concrete words 10. First Words 11. Conceptual Schemas and Cultural Frames 12. Learning spatial relation words
Part 5. Learning words for actions 13. Embodied knowledge of actions 14. Learning action words
Part 6. Abstract and metaphorical words 15. Conceptual systems 16. Metaphors as mapping between (Cultural and Primary) frames 17. Understanding as Simulation
Part 7. Understanding Stories 18. Aspect : from action to inference 19. Belief propagation in target domains 20. Understanding news stories
Part 8. Combining Form and Meaning
21. Combining Forms - Grammar 22. The Language Wars: Autonomy and Innateness 23. Combining Meanings - Embodied Construction Grammar
Part 9. Embodied Language 24. Embodied Language Understanding 25. Learning Embodied Constructions 26. Remaining Mysteries 27. All Together Now
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