01:830:351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eleanor Rosch, Mirror Neuron
9 Feb 2018
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Has primitive features doesn"t matter as necessary or sufficient the more features there are, the more prototypical it is faster to learn words that have more features. Based on a hierarchical organization have directionality. All these words are being connected and defined by each other but still are not grounded like a bunch of balloons tied together with no weight holding it down. Indexical hypothesis in which words are tied to representations we build with our senses. Example of meshing: specifically, for a rock the mouse was hiding from the cat, combine all the indexes and affordances to determine meshing sentence. Determine the noun as being natural (non-man-made) or man-made. Embodied semantics and mirror neurons tms. Use tms magnetic fields to create temporary lesions left hemisphere is linguistic right hemisphere is non-linguistic: see graphs on slide regarding results of tms and hemispheres, neural activity corresponds to movements of arms or legs.
