Grammar originates in action planning, not in cognitive and sensorimotor visual systems

While the PREDICATE(x) structure requires close coordination of subject and predicate, both represented in consciousness, the cognitive (ventral), and sensorimotor (dorsal) pathways operate in parallel. Sensorimotor information is unconscious and can contradict cognitive spatial information. A more...

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Published inThe Behavioral and brain sciences Vol. 26; no. 3; p. 287
Main Author Bridgeman, Bruce
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.06.2003
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Cognitive ability
Language
Sensorimotor system
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Summary:While the PREDICATE(x) structure requires close coordination of subject and predicate, both represented in consciousness, the cognitive (ventral), and sensorimotor (dorsal) pathways operate in parallel. Sensorimotor information is unconscious and can contradict cognitive spatial information. A more likely origin of linguistic grammar lies in the mammalian action planning process. Neurological machinery evolved for planning of action sequences becomes applied to planning communicatory sequences.
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ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X03260076