"This handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture. Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both empirical and theoretical levels. Chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamicsas shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals. This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe experience, in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics, philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary biology"--
This handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.
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| Introduction: Semiosis, brain, and context: The unmet need for a transdisciplinary framework |
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PART I Prolegomena to neurosemiotics |
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1 Neurosemiotics: A brief history of its development and key concerns |
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2 Steps to a semiotic cognitive neuroscience |
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3 An active inference approach to semiotics: A variational theory of signs |
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4 Experimental semiotics: Past, present, and future |
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5 Beyond the human animal: Towards a cross-species neurosemiotics |
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PART II Language and its pathways to meaning |
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6 Neural bases of multimodal semantics |
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7 Embodied mechanisms and the shaping of semantics |
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9 Pharmacological modulation of meaning attribution |
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11 Discourse and the brain: Capturing meaning in the wild |
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12 Words, meanings, and the bilingual brain |
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13 How do sign languages mean? |
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PART III The neurosemiotics of social dynamics |
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14 Empathy, meaning, and the human brain |
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15 Biological bases of moral cognition and their role in the construal of meaning |
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16 The neurosemiotics of social interaction: Insights from second-person neuroscience |
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17 Joint epistemic engineering: The neglected process in human communication |
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18 Towards a neurosemiotics of friendship |
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19 Neurosemiotics and ideology: A linguistic view |
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20 The interplay of culture, religion, and biology |
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PART IV Further semiotic domains |
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21 What makes us human? Face identity recognition |
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22 Musical signs and the human organism |
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23 The meaning of tools: The pragmatic value of semantic knowledge |
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24 Interpreting the signals within: Meaning and prediction during interoception |
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25 The hierarchical semantics of self |
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Adolfo M. Garcķa specializes in the neuroscience of language and communication. He serves as Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (UdeSA, Argentina), Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (UCSF, USA), Associate Researcher at USACH (Chile), Director of Language Science at Redenlab, and Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). Dr. Garcķa leads research projects in more than ten countries across the globe. He has more than 200 publications, including works in top ten journals. His scientific contributions have been recognized by various awards and distinctions.
Agustķn Ibįńez works on global approaches to dementia and social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience. He is Director of the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) and Full Professor at the CSCN (Universidad Adolfo Ibįńez, Chile); and Associate Research Professor and Group Leader of Predictive Brain Health Modelling Group (TCD, Ireland). Dr Ibįńez has over 300 publications, including works in top ten journals. His intense work has helped Latin American translational neuroscience by establishing a framework to engage scientists through internships, workshops, masters and PhD programs, organizing educational activities for the health community, and focusing on cognitive neuroscience, among others.
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