Harmony Effects Across Language and Perception

lt;p>This book argues that perception and higher cognition are closer to each other than the Cartesian tradition maintains. The research combines results from cognitive neuroscience, the philosophy of perception and natural language syntax to demonstrate that all systems of cognition draw from a common set of computational and conceptual resources.

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lt;p>This book offers original insights around a fascinating idea: Perception and the rest of cognition, crucially including language, are closer to each other than the Cartesian tradition dared to dream. By combining recent results in cognitive neuroscience, the philosophy of perception, and the syntax of natural language, the book demonstrates that there is continuity between higher and lower cognition. Percepts from perceptual experience are propositional, conceptual, and they are not divorced from objective reality. Human cognition is merged with the natural world, able to reflect it in complex ways and interact with it in modalities that are since the very beginning computationally complex and rich in content.