MENTAL DISEASE AND LANGUAGE

Mental Computation and Language Breakdown:

This paper is a response to commentaries on my target paper for Computational Intelligence, “Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown.” In this response, I acknowledge certain errors in my initial construal of control and dismiss unwarranted criticisms. I then reexamine both control and certain language disorders in light of the explicitness of cross-domain ...

Mechanisms linking Mental Health Problems and Cardiac Disease: A Review

Psychological problems play a critical role in development of cardiovascular disease. Several mechanisms were suggested to explain the association and mechanism of this effect, recently. Knowledge of the mechanisms mediating the association between psychological status and heart disease could help in developing treatments. The effects of mind and mood on the cardiovascular system can be due to ...

U.S.S.R. and Mental Disease

Mental spaces, language modalities, and conceptual integration

In working on matters related to language over the years, my greatest surprise has been to find out how little of the rich meanings we construct is explicitly contained in the forms of language itself. I had taken it for granted, at first, that languages were essentially coding systems for semantic relations, and that sentences, when appropriately associated with 'natural' pragmatic specificati...

Language and Children’s Understanding of Mental States

Children progress through various landmarks in their understanding of mind and emotion. They eventually understand that people’s actions, utterances, and emotions are determined by their beliefs. Although these insights emerge in all normal children, individual children vary in their rates of progress. Four lines of research indicate that language and conversation play a role in individual deve...