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1、49734Feldman5/26/0610:03AMPage1JeromeA.FeldmanisProfessorofElectricalcognitivescienceFromMoleculetoMetaphorEngineeringandComputerScienceandformerDirectorANeuralTheoryofLanguageoftheCognitiveScienceProgramattheUniversityof“Howcanthebrain,ahighlystructuredbiologicalandchemicalmech
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3、agueinunlock-InFromMoleculetoMetaphor,JeromeFeldmanproposesaingthispuzzle,hasgivenusthefirstserioustheorylinkingneurobiologytoneuralcomputationtotheoryoflanguageandthoughtthattreatslanguageABradfordBookcognitivelinguistics.FromMoleculetoMetaphorisanindispensablebookforanyoneinte
4、restedinhowFromMoleculetoMetaphornotasanabstractsymbolsystembutasahumanbio-humanbeingsthink,act,andcommunicate.”logicalabilitythatcanbestudiedasafunctionoftheGeorgeLakoff,GoldmanDistinguishedProfessorofCognitiveScienceandLinguistics,brain,asvisionandmotorcontrolarestudied.Thisth
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6、moderncomputerscienceandbringingdeepcomputationalideastoencesarerevealingmuchabouthowourbrainspro-thestudyofcognitivescience.Inthisexcitingnewbook,heshowswhyunderstandingthemostcom-ducelanguageandthought,wedonotyetknowplexcomputationsofthehumanbraindependsontakingaccountoftheont
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