From Molecule to Metaphor : A Neural Theory of Language

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