The Puzzling Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings

Mondal, Prakash (2022) The Puzzling Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings. Cognitive Science, 46 (9). ISSN 0364-0213

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Abstract

Natural language meaning has properties of both (embodied) cognitive representations and formal/mathematical structures. But it is not clear how they actually relate to one another. This article argues that how properties of cognitive representations and formal/mathematical structures of natural language meaning can be united remains one of the puzzles in cognitive science. That is primarily because formal/mathematical structures of natural language meaning are abstract, logical, and truth-conditional properties, whereas cognitive/conceptual representations are embodied and grounded in sensory-motor systems. After reviewing the current progress, this work offers, in outline, the general formulations that show how these two different kinds of representations for semantic structures can (potentially) be unified and also proposes three desiderata for testing, in brain dynamics, the mathematical equivalence between formal symbolic representations (and their transitions), and neuronal population codes (and their transitions).

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Mondal, Prakashhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7529-8003
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: DYNAMICS,Embodiment
Subjects: Arts > Liberal arts
Divisions: Department of Liberal Arts
Depositing User: . LibTrainee 2021
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2022 09:48
Last Modified: 16 Sep 2022 09:48
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/10597
Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13200
OA policy: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/6843
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