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Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology

  • Presents a truly interdisciplinary state-of-the-art discussion of cognitive structures

  • Deals with a broad variety of models of cognitive representations

  • Includes psychological research on both humans and animals

Part of the book series: Language, Cognition, and Mind (LCAM, volume 7)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Prototypes and Probabilities

    1. Extremes are Typical. A Game Theoretical Derivation

      • Robert van Rooij, Thomas Brochhagen
      Pages 351-363Open Access
    2. Grading Similarity

      • Carla Umbach, Helmar Gust
      Pages 365-386Open Access
  2. Cognition and Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 387-387
    2. Escitalopram Restores Reversal Learning Impairments in Rats with Lesions of Orbital Frontal Cortex

      • David S. Tait, Ellen E. Bowman, Silke Miller, Mary Dovlatyan, Connie Sanchez, Verity J. Brown
      Pages 389-409Open Access
    3. Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Social Reinforcers—Implications for a Multilevel Model of the Cognitive Representation of Action and Rats’ Social World

      • Tobias Kalenscher, Lisa-Maria Schönfeld, Sebastian Löbner, Markus Wöhr, Mireille van Berkel, Maurice-Philipp Zech et al.
      Pages 411-438Open Access
    4. Influence of Manner Adverbs on Action Verb Processing

      • Jan Sieksmeyer, Anne Klepp, Valentina Niccolai, Jacqueline Metzlaff, Alfons Schnitzler, Katja Biermann-Ruben
      Pages 439-461Open Access
    5. When Mechanical Computations Explain Better

      • Silvano Zipoli Caiani
      Pages 463-477Open Access
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 479-486

About this book

This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly is its nature.

Frames are a key topic covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory.  Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization, the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as cognitive analysis in semantics.  This book is of interest to students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

Keywords

  • Representation of Concepts
  • Lexical Semantics
  • Frame Semantics
  • Frame Representations
  • Conceptual Spaces
  • Categorization and Linguistics
  • Open Access

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Sebastian Löbner

  • Department of General Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Thomas Gamerschlag

  • Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Tobias Kalenscher

  • Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Markus Schrenk

  • Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henk Zeevat

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology

  • Editors: Sebastian Löbner, Thomas Gamerschlag, Tobias Kalenscher, Markus Schrenk, Henk Zeevat

  • Series Title: Language, Cognition, and Mind

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50200-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50199-0Published: 29 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50202-7Published: 13 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50200-3Published: 28 May 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2364-4109

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4117

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 486

  • Number of Illustrations: 230 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Philosophy of Mind, Experimental Psychology

Buying options

Hardcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-50199-0
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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