TY - JOUR
T1 - Action-based language
T2 - A theory of language acquisition, comprehension, and production
AU - Glenberg, Arthur
AU - Gallese, Vittorio
N1 - Funding Information:
Arthur Glenberg, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University ( glenberg@asu.edu ); Vittorio Gallese, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma. Support for this work was provided to AMG by NSF grants BCS 0315434 and BCS 0744105 and to VG by MIUR (Ministero Italiano dell’Università e della Ricerca) and by the EU grants DISCOS, NESTCOM and ROSSI. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Evolution and the brain have done a marvelous job solving many tricky problems in action control, including problems of learning, hierarchical control over serial behavior, continuous recalibration, and fluency in the face of slow feedback. Given that evolution tends to be conservative, it should not be surprising that these solutions are exploited to solve other tricky problems, such as the design of a communication system. We propose that a mechanism of motor control, paired controller/predictor models, has been exploited for language learning, comprehension, and production. Our account addresses the development of grammatical regularities and perspective, as well as how linguistic symbols become meaningful through grounding in perception, action, and emotional systems.
AB - Evolution and the brain have done a marvelous job solving many tricky problems in action control, including problems of learning, hierarchical control over serial behavior, continuous recalibration, and fluency in the face of slow feedback. Given that evolution tends to be conservative, it should not be surprising that these solutions are exploited to solve other tricky problems, such as the design of a communication system. We propose that a mechanism of motor control, paired controller/predictor models, has been exploited for language learning, comprehension, and production. Our account addresses the development of grammatical regularities and perspective, as well as how linguistic symbols become meaningful through grounding in perception, action, and emotional systems.
KW - Embodiment
KW - HMOSAIC model of action control
KW - Language
KW - Mirror neurons
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.04.010
DO - 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.04.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 21601842
AN - SCOPUS:84861910350
SN - 0010-9452
VL - 48
SP - 905
EP - 922
JO - Cortex
JF - Cortex
IS - 7
ER -