2013 Special Issue: Mirror neurons, language, and embodied cognition

  • Authors:
  • Leonid I. Perlovsky;Roman Ilin

  • Affiliations:
  • AFRL, United States and Harvard University, United States;AFRL, United States

  • Venue:
  • Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Basic mechanisms of the mind, cognition, language, its semantic and emotional mechanisms are modeled using dynamic logic (DL). This cognitively and mathematically motivated model leads to a dual-model hypothesis of language and cognition. The paper emphasizes that abstract cognition cannot evolve without language. The developed model is consistent with a joint emergence of language and cognition from a mirror neuron system. The dual language-cognition model leads to the dual mental hierarchy. The nature of cognition embodiment in the hierarchy is analyzed. Future theoretical and experimental research is discussed.