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Reader's Roadmap
From Molecule to Metaphor : A Neural Theory of Language

From Molecule to Metaphor: A Reader's Roadmap

This Reader's Roadmap has a one-page diagram for each of the 27 chapters of the book, highlighting key ideas and their relation to (mostly) earlier chapters. Believe it or not, the first version was done by John Torous, a student in my CS182 class, as a way to study for the final exam. This slightly cleaned up version was assembled with the help of Leah Hitchcock and Jacob Wolkenhauer.
 
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Chapter 1: The Mystery of Embodied Language

Chapter 2: The Information Processing Perspective

Chapter 3: Computational Models

Chapter 4: Neurons and Other Cells

Chapter 5: The Society of Neurons

Chapter 6: Nature and Nurture

Chapter 7: Connections in the Mind

Chapter 8: Embodied Concepts and Their Words

Chapter 9: The Computational Bridge

Chapter 10: First Words

Chapter 11: Conceptual Schemas and Cultural Frames

Chapter 12: Learning Spatial Relation Words

Chapter 13: Embodied Knowledge of Actions

Chapter 14: Learning Action Words

Chapter 15: Conceptual Systems

Chapter 16: Metaphors and Meaning

Chapter 17: Understanding as Simulation

Chapter 18: The Structure of Action and Events

Chapter 19: Belief and Inference

Chapter 20: Understanding News Stories

Chapter 21: Combining Forms - Grammar

Chapter 22: The Language Wars

Chapter 23: Combining Meanings - Embodied Construction Grammar

Chapter 24: Embodied Language Understanding

Chapter 25: Learning Constructions

Chapter 26: Remaining Mysteries

Chapter 27: All Together Now