Mirror neurons, language, and embodied cognition

作者：Perlovsky Leonid I; Ilin Roman

来源：Neural Networks, 2013, 41: 15-22.

DOI：10.1016/j.neunet.2013.01.003

• Cognition
• Language
• Mirror neurons
• Emotions
• Dynamic logic
• Neural modeling fields
• Joint emergence
• Embodiment

Basic mechanisms of the mind, cognition, language, its semantic and emotional mechanisms are modeled using dynamic logic (DL). This cognitively and mathematically motivated model leads to a dual-model hypothesis of language and cognition. The paper emphasizes that abstract cognition cannot evolve without language. The developed model is consistent with a joint emergence of language and cognition from a mirror neuron system. The dual language-cognition model leads to the dual mental hierarchy. The nature of cognition embodiment in the hierarchy is analyzed. Future theoretical and experimental research is discussed. Published by Elsevier Ltd

• 出版日期2013-5