The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

This review investigates two recent developments in artificial intelligence and neural
computation: learning from imitation and the development of humanoid robots. It is …

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

The Prefrontal Cortex, Fifth Edition, provides users with a thoroughly updated version of this
comprehensive work that has historically served as the classic reference on this part of the …

In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from …

Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological
science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be …

This paper concerns how motor actions are neurally represented and coded. Action
planning and motor preparation can be studied using a specific type of representational …

Although individual neurons in the arm area of the primate motor cortex are only broadly
tuned to a particular direction in three-dimensional space, the animal can very precisely …

Emotions and actions are powerfully contagious; when we see someone laugh, cry, show
disgust, or experience pain, in some sense, we share that emotion. When we see someone …

Skilful motor performance means producing the optimal response in a context involving
external and internal constraints. The external constraints are those imposed by the …