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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraphs
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I: Relational Semantics
1. The Binding Problem in Semantics
1.1. Binding and Visual Perception
1.2. Binding Meanings through Time
1.3. Semantic Analysis-by-Synthesis
2. Neural Bases of Relational Semantics
2.1. Electrophysiology of Relational Semantics
2.2. Brain Networks for Relational Semantics
2.3. The Cortical Seats of Semantic Binding
3. A Dynamic Theory of Semantic Binding
3.1. Binding through Processing Cycles
3.2. A Neurocognitive Model of the N400
3.3. Relations with Computational Models
II: Interpretive Semantics
4. From Binding to Interpretation and Back
4.1. Semantics as Computational Theory
4.2. Principles of Discourse Processing
4.3. Three Dimensions of Interpretation
5. Brain Systems for Discourse and Logic
5.1. Referential Processing in the Brain
5.2. Elaborative Processing in the Brain
5.3. Inferential Processing in the Brain
6. Discourse Models as Cortical Stable States
6.1. An Extended Brain Network for Semantics
6.2. The Emergence of Stable Representations
6.3. From Minimal Models to Complex Actions
III: Evolutionary Semantics
7. Signaling and the Evolution of Meaning
7.1. Formal Properties of Signaling Games
7.2. Role Asymmetry and Code Transmission
7.3. Signaling Games and Natural Language
8. Plasticity in the Brain’s Semantic System
8.1. Ontogenesis of the Semantic System
8.2. Semantic Learning and Neural Plasticity
8.3. The Neural Bases of Signaling Behavior
9. Brains as Meaning Transmission Machines
9.1. Prior Structure in Meaning Acquisition
9.2. Productive and Receptive Transmission
9.3. The Neural Origins of Lexical Meanings
IV: Synopsis
10. Meaning in the Brain
Bibliography
Index
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