From Spatial Cognition to Language

Abstract: The evolution of language has been linked in the recent research to the evolution of a number of different capacities, from the theory of mind to the type-recursive computation. In this paper, I examine the possibility that language has evolved from the capacity of spatial computation. Similarities, but also certain differences, between the two capacities are outlined and discussed, including the following. From the aspect of neuro-cognitive science, it cannot stay unnoticed that some of the central computations both in the language faculty and in the spatial cognition are located in the same brain area - the hippocampus. On the cognitive side, direct counterparts of the central components of the language faculty can be identified within the domain of spatial cognition. In particular, this is argued for the recursive computation and its categorial base, for the use of two types of information, the descriptive and the geometric, in establishing reference, for the process of update o.... https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8615

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: From Spatial Cognition to Language ; volume:2 ; number:1 ; day:30 ; month:03 ; year:2008 ; Biolinguistics ; 2, Heft 1 (30.03.2008)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Arsenijevic, Boban

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/bioling.8615
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022110709283370339836
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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