Meaning in the brain / Baggio Giosuè.

Intro; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Relational Semantics; 1. The Binding Problem in Semantics; 1.1 Binding and Visual Perception; 1.2 Binding Meanings through Time; 1.3 Semantic Analysis-by-Synthesis; 2. Neural Bases of Relational Semantics; 2.1 Electrophysiology of Relational Semantics; 2.2 Brain Networks for Relational Semantics; 2.3 The Cortical Seats of Semantic Binding; 3. A Dynamic Theory of Semantic Binding; 3.1 Binding through Processing Cycles; 3.2 A Neurocognitive Model of the N400; 3.3 Relations with Computational Models; II. Interpretive Semantics

4. From Binding to Interpretation and Back4.1 Semantics as Computational Theory; 4.2 Principles of Discourse Processing; 4.3 Three Dimensions of Interpretation; 5. Brain Systems for Discourse and Logic; 5.1 Referential Processing in the Brain; 5.2 Elaborative Processing in the Brain; 5.3 Inferential Processing in the Brain; 6. Discourse Models as Cortical Stable States; 6.1 An Extended Brain Network for Semantics; 6.2 The Emergence of Stable Representations; 6.3 From Minimal Models to Complex Actions; III. Evolutionary Semantics; 7. Signaling and the Evolution of Meaning

7.1 Formal Properties of Signaling Games7.2 Role Asymmetry and Code Transmission; 7.3 Signaling Games and Natural Language; 8. Plasticity in the Brain's Semantic System; 8.1 Ontogenesis of the Semantic System; 8.2 Semantic Learning and Neural Plasticity; 8.3 The Neural Bases of Signaling Behavior; 9. Brains as Meaning Transmission Machines; 9.1 Prior Structure in Meaning Acquisition; 9.2 Productive and Receptive Transmission; 9.3 The Neural Origins of Lexical Meanings; IV. Synopsis; 10. Meaning in the Brain; Bibliography; Index