Neural Network for Speech and Gesture Semantics
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (6 January 2024) | Viewed by 2060
Special Issue Editors
Interests: embodied cognition; motor performance; language; gesture
2. Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry-NPIA District of Scandiano, AUSL of Reggio Emilia, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy
Interests: cognitive neuroscience; posture; motor activity; emotion recognition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent embodied view of cognition is open to relevant claims about a motor origin of language function, whereby it is proposed to have gradually evolved from a communication system initially based on manual gestures. Today, the use of gestures remains a universal feature of human communication, accompanying spoken language with the function of integrating the message semantics.
Many studies in the last years support this idea, offering evidence that gesture and speech semantics might be processed in the same brain areas, with overlapping activation of sensorimotor and linguistic systems. However, the current evidence is far from conclusive regarding the definition of a shared neural network and is not definitive about the essentiality of motor system contribution.
This Special Issue will highlight empirical and theoretical advances in investigating the neural basis of semantic processing and integration of gestural and linguistic signals during their comprehension and production. The aim is to offer a coherent framework of the involved brain circuitry and to collect data in supporting or contradicting recent theories of embodied cognition and the motor origin of language.
Original research articles in addition to reviews and theoretical contributions are welcome. The use of diverse methods from cognitive neuroscience, including functional MRI, scalp, or intracranial EEG and TMS, also integrated with electromyography and movement analysis techniques, are encouraged.
Dr. Doriana De Marco
Dr. Elisa De Stefani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- embodied cognition
- language
- gestures
- semantics
- speech
