Van De Zee Emile, Nikanne Urpo (Editors). Cognitive Interfaces: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information

Oxford University Press, 2000. — xii, 260. — (Oxford Linguistics). — ISBN: 0–19–829961–3.This book brings new perspectives to bear on the architecture of the mind and the relationship between language and cognition. It considers how information is linked in the mind between different cognitive and expressive levels - so that people can, for example, talk about what they see and act upon what they hear - and how these linkages are and need to be constrained. The book is concerned in particular with the perception and representation of spatial structure. The authors, all psychologists and linguists, show that insights can be gained from the joint deployment of theoretical linguistic and experimental psychological research and the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind, brain, and language.Introducing Cognitive Interfaces and Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information
Constraints on the Conceptual-Structure-to-Syntactic-Structure
Interface
Multiple Interfaces
Constituent Linking Between Conceptual Structure and Syntactic Structure
Constraints on the Conceptual-Structure-to-Spatial-Structure Interface
Some Restrictions in Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Movement
Object Use and Object Location: The Effect of Function on Spatial Relations
Retrieving Spatial Relations From Observation and Memory
Constraints on the Lexical Interface
Why We Can Talk About Bulging Barrels and Spinning Spirals: Curvature Representation in the Lexical Interface
Constraints on ‘Interfaces’ From a Connectionist Perspective
Developing Relations
Temporal Bounds on Interfaces