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- 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
Part of the book series: Studies in Brain and Mind (SIBM, volume 15)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Philosophical Distinction
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An Empirical Hypothesis
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The Neuroscience Evidence
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The Inferential and the Referential Neural Systems
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Front Matter
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Complicating the Picture
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Lexical semantic competence
- Lexical meaning
- Truth-conditional semantics
- Semantic competence
- Inferential semantics
- Inferential competence
- Meaning postulates
- Referential semantics
- Referential competence
- Reference in the brain
- Neuroscience of semantics
- Semantics in the brain
- Anterior temporal lob
- Posterior Middle Temporal gyrus
- Artificial object recognition
- Neural substrates of naming to definition
- Neural substrates of Visual naming
- Neural substrates of inferential competence
- Neural substrates of referential competence
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Fabrizio Calzavarini
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brain and the Lexicon
Book Subtitle: The Neural Basis of Inferential and Referential Competence
Authors: Fabrizio Calzavarini
Series Title: Studies in Brain and Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27588-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27587-7Published: 09 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27590-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27588-4Published: 08 January 2020
Series ISSN: 1573-4536
Series E-ISSN: 2468-399X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 215
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Linguistics, Neuropsychology