Perceptual Symbol Systems: BBS Call for Commentators
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> Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
> PERCEPTUAL SYMBOL SYSTEMS
> by Lawrence W. Barsalou
> This article has been accepted for publication in Behavi{*filter*}
> and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary
> journal providing Open Peer [....]
> Commentators must be BBS Associates or [....]
> PERCEPTUAL SYMBOL SYSTEMS
> Lawrence W. Barsalou
> Department of Psychology
> Emory University
> Atlanta, GA 30322
> http://www.***.com/ ~barsalou/
> ABSTRACT: Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were
> inherently perceptual. [...]
http://www.***.com/ ~mentifex/ The Mentifex theory goes beyond mere
perception or sensation into the evolution of abstract concepts:
Hearing Vision The Evolution of Concepts Motor Output
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> [...] During perceptual experience, association areas in the brain
> capture bottom-up patterns of activation in sensory-motor areas.
> Later, in a top-down manner, association areas partially reactivate
> sensory-motor areas to implement perceptual symbols. The storage and
> reactivation of perceptual symbols operates at the level of perceptual
> components--not at the level of holistic perceptual experiences. [...]
http://www.***.com/
avails itself now of a Chomskyan linguistic superstructure of mind:
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/visual memory\ / \ / auditory \
| | / syntax \--------------|------------\ |
| | \ node / ______ | memory | |
| | \________/----/ \ | channel | |
| | | /function\ | | |
| /--------|--------\ | \ cable / | | |
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| | | _V__V_ | | / \ | |
| __|__ | / \ | | /stored\ | |
| /image\ | /logico- \---------|------|--\ stem / | |
| /percept\----|----/conceptual\ | | \____/ | |
| \_______/ | \ cable / _____V__ | | | |
| | \________/ / \---|-----'____ | |
| | /inflection\ | /in- \ | |
| | \ cable /--|----/flec- \| |
| | \________/ | \tion / |
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> The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
> http://www.***.com/ ~harnad/bbs/
> http://www.***.com/
> ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.barsalou
> ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.barsalou
> gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals [...]
