{"product_id":"the-neural-mind-how-brains-think","title":"The Neural Mind: How Brains Think by George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is an idea, and where does it come from? We experience thought as if it were abstract, but every thought is actually a physical thing, carried out by the neural systems of our brains. Thought does not occur neuron-by-neuron; it happens when neurons come together to form circuits and when simple circuits combine to form complex ones. Thoughts, then, derive their structures from the circuitry we also use for vision, touch, and hearing. This circuitry is what allows simple thoughts to come together into complex concepts, making meaning, creating metaphors, and framing our social and political ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Neural Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, George Lakoff, a pioneering cognitive linguist, and computer scientist Srini Narayanan deftly combine insights from cognitive science, computational modeling, and linguistics to show how thoughts arise from the neural circuitry that runs throughout our bodies. They answer key questions about the ways we make meaning: How does neural circuitry create the conceptual \"frames\" through which we understand our social lives? What kind of neural circuitry characterizes metaphorical thought, in which ideas are understood in terms of other ideas with similar structures? Lively and accessible, the book shows convincingly that the \"metaphors we live by\"--to use Lakoff's famous phrase--aren't abstractions but deeply embodied neural constructs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Neural Mind \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book of its kind, bringing together the ideas of multiple disciplines to offer a unified, accessible theory of thought. A field-defining work, Lakoff and Narayanan's book will be of interest not just to linguists and cognitive scientists but also to psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, journalists, sociologists, and political scientists--and anyone who wants to understand \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003ewe really think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: What It Takes to Create Human Thought\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Creation of Perception: Color \u003cbr\u003eWhat Are Ideas? \u003cbr\u003eThe Brain's Tool Kit \u003cbr\u003eThe Body Is Neural \u003cbr\u003eDual Models \u003cbr\u003eGeneralizations \u003cbr\u003eFunctional Generalization \u003cbr\u003eCascades \u003cbr\u003eConvergence-Divergence Zones \u003cbr\u003eExplaining Basic-Level Concepts \u003cbr\u003eSound Symbolism \u003cbr\u003eCreating Perception: Seeing, Feeling, and Hearing \u003cbr\u003eThe Takeaways \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: How Thought Works\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom Motor Control to Thought \u003cbr\u003eThe Big Surprise: Aspect Is Motor Control \u003cbr\u003eImage Schemas: Starting with Kant \u003cbr\u003eOn Schemas \u003cbr\u003eSchema Embodiment \u003cbr\u003eThinking with Schemas \u003cbr\u003eFrames 00 \u003cbr\u003eThe 2,500-Year-Old Theory \u003cbr\u003eConceptual Metaphor \u003cbr\u003eScales and Their Logic \u003cbr\u003ePrimary Embodied Metaphor \u003cbr\u003eMetaphor and Neuroscience \u003cbr\u003eConceptual Integration and Consciousness \u003cbr\u003eCategories \u003cbr\u003eThe Takeaways \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The Neural Mechanisms of Thought\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eScope and Challenges \u003cbr\u003eNeural Firing: The Basic Steps \u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Structured Neural Computational Modeling? \u003cbr\u003eBasic Circuit Types \u003cbr\u003eCoordination and Cascades: Evidence from Behavior Control \u003cbr\u003eCombinatorial Circuits \u003cbr\u003eMultiple Mapping Circuits \u003cbr\u003eControl and Coordination Circuits \u003cbr\u003eIntegrative Circuits and Simulation \u003cbr\u003eSimulation in Language and Thought \u003cbr\u003eThe Takeaways \u003cbr\u003eApplying the Neural Theory \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Neural Language\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThinking Neurally about Language \u003cbr\u003eBasic Circuit Types in Grammar \u003cbr\u003eThe Scope and Power of Ideas in Grammar Due to Circuits for Ideas \u003cbr\u003eEmbedding and Composition \u003cbr\u003eThe Coordination of Multiple Circuits in Grammar \u003cbr\u003eLexicon and Grammar \u003cbr\u003eThere Is No Natural Language without Meaning \u003cbr\u003eEarly Intimations of Integration in Grammar \u003cbr\u003eCase Study 1: One-Anaphora \u003cbr\u003eCase Study 2: Cascades of Metaphors \u003cbr\u003eCase Study 3: Looking Over without Overlooking \u003cbr\u003eLanguage Types and Embodiment \u003cbr\u003eThe Two-Type Language Contrast \u003cbr\u003eHow Ideas Spread \u003cbr\u003eNeural Phonology \u003cbr\u003eThe Takeaways \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfterword: The Neural Mind versus Deep Learning AI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lakoff and Narayanan offer a comprehensive, easy-to-read review of fifty years of research in cognitive linguistics married with neurally inspired computational modeling. A must-read for anyone interested in how the human mind works.\"-- \"Rafael Núñez, University of California, San Diego\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is potentially the most important book ever written on the relation of mind, thought, and language. With a sweeping interdisciplinary vision, supported by wonderful examples and accessible explanations, it integrates linguistic, psychological, cognitive scientific, and neuroscientific research that provides a new understanding of how our minds work. It is a deep exploration of how the brain is continuously reorganized by the way we live and engage our environments, thereby structuring our brains, which, in turn, shape our experience, meaning, thought, and language.\"-- \"Mark Johnson, University of Oregon\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eThe Neural Mind\u003c\/i\u003e offers one of the only encompassing reviews of embodied cognitive science. Lakoff and Narayanan cover a large expanse of theories, data, and science and try to explain, in a way that is easy to understand, theories surrounding the underlying structure of how the brain works. \u003ci\u003eThe Neural Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is novel, important, and expansive. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in how the brain may function.\"-- \"Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, University of Southern California\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Lakoff\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eMetaphors We Live By\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSrini Narayanan\u003c\/b\u003e is distinguished scientist and senior research director at Google DeepMind, Zurich, where he leads a research group on machine learning and natural language processing. Until 2014, he was director of the International Computer Science Institute, a core faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program, and a faculty member at the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, all at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a cofounder of the Berkeley Neural Theory of Language group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45957681184954,"sku":"9780226835884","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_59807192-ed2f-440f-b30b-93a94cbf577d.jpg?v=1780766434","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-neural-mind-how-brains-think","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}