title: Mirror neurons, language, and embodied cognition.
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.
authors: AFRL, USA. leonid.perlovsky@hanscom.af.mil
authors: Leonid I
authors: LI
authors: Perlovsky
authors: Roman
authors: R
authors: Ilin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008128:Logic; D059167:Mirror Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012660:Semantics