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Ventral/dorsal, predicate/argument: The transformation from perception to meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

James R. Hurford
James R. Hurford
Affiliation:
Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, United Kingdom [email protected]
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Abstract

It is necessary to distinguish among representations caused directly by perception, representations of past perceptions in long-term memory, the representations underlying linguis- tic utterances, and the surface phonological and grammatical structures of sentences. The target article dealt essentially with predicate-argument structure at the first of these levels of representation. Discussion of the commentaries mainly involves distinguishing among various applications of the term “predicate”; clarifying the assumed relationship between classical FOPL and language; clarifying the status of unique individuals as conceived by humans; and addressing the issues of motion-perception, binding between object-percepts and predicate-percepts, and target-driven versus stimulus-driven attention.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 301 - 311
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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