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Predicates: External description or neural reality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Michael A. Arbib
Michael A. Arbib
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department, Neuroscience Program and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 arbib@pollux.usc.edu http://www-hbp.usc.edu/
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Abstract

Hurford argues that propositions of the form PREDICATE(x) represent conceptual structures that predate language and that can be explicated in terms of neural structure. I disagree, arguing that such predicates are descriptions of limited aspects of brain function, not available as representations in the brain to be exploited in the frog or monkey brain and turned into language in the human.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 285 - 286
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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