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Within the classical debate between the discrete or continuous nature of linguistic phenomena, there is controversy regarding the relationship between different lexical categories and the internal relationship between the different words that are part of a specific category. In this contribution, we present the results of topological studies provided by Neurolinguistics and studies of acquisition, loss, processing, and storage conducted in Psycholinguistics to try to verify if there is any evidence in favor of or against the discrete nature of lexical categories, with special attention to the distinction between nouns and verbs and to the Indo-European languages. As a result of this work, we consider that there are sufficient indications to suggest that speakers distinguish lexical categories discreetly and homogeneously, but also establish a series of additional correlations between the members of these categories and different properties (among which the semantic component stands out). In this sense, we believe it is necessary to distinguish between these two levels of study: the discrete and automated nature of lexical categories and the various correlations that both speakers and researchers themselves can make with different study variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author reflects on awareness and decision-making decisions with human brain or artificial intelligence or the successive branches of knowledge and the particular sectors of culture or works of human ingenuity. It mentions philosophical perspective with the pseudoscientific contrasting them with verifications from psychiatry, neurology, neurolinguistics and experimental psychology and theoretical.

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This contribution proposes an introduction to the development and objectives of biolinguistics, as well as a reflection on its status as a scientific discipline. We show that, in general, the consideration of language as a biological property of our species, and not only as a cultural achievement of it, has had a remarkable effect on the development of linguistic theory, and on its connection with other fields of cognitive science, notably with psycholinguistics. We conclude that, although there is still much to be understood about how the brain processes and stores languages, about how this faculty evolved in our species, and how it develops in each person, the integration of theoretical linguistics and cognitive neuroscience is making us increasingly able to turn those mysteries into empirically tractable problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of the neurocognitive approach to the lexicon that disciplines such as Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics carry out and, consequently, the addition of the mental and brain mechanisms that underlie the encoding and decoding of meanings in the field of Semantics, a series of terms or terminological units arises. They can be grouped into three main axes: the lexical mental and brain representations, the computational and associative processes involved in lexical-semantic comprehension and production, and the acquisition and loss of meanings. The main aims of our paper are 1) to assess the inclusion of these Psycholinguistics contents in Lexical Semantics, 2) to analyze their degree of consolidation and vitality in a set of dictionaries of Linguistics, and 3) to identify possible deficiencies in their terminological treatment and draw up a proposal for their conceptual integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The translator of texts from the tourist sector must bear in mind the heterogeneity and interdisciplinary nature of the language of tourism (Calvi, 2006), which requires action beyond the purely linguistic. In order to create some kind of motivation which drives the consumer-tourist to act in a certain way, it is necessary to pre-process the perceived information from verbal and non-verbal stimuli (Alonso Rivas & Grande Esteban, 2013). This paper aims to discuss the cognitive processes behind a decision when applying neuromarketing strategies to tourism texts, and how these come about through two visual semiotic resources: image and colour. In essence, it is a conceptual and interpretative overlap that should be taken into consideration when translating this type of text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work is to analyze the biological, social and environmental mechanisms that made possible the cognitive evolution of our lineage. To this end, an interdisciplinary study is proposed along with the most influential sciences on human behavior (evolutionary biology, neurology, psychology, neurolinguistics, social anthropology, etc.). Our purpose is not to delve into any particular topic within these sciences, but to coordinate their most recent data to establish a psychobiological and social model (functional structuralism) on our neurological and cognitive evolution, which will allow us to analyze the transformations-according to the archaeological record-from the beginning of the genus Homo to the present day. The main propulsor of these changes would be causal cognition as a neurophysiological mechanism that produce the evolutionary development of human cognition (social, emotional and technological). This process, based on the exaptative character of our brain, presents a clear co-evolutionary procedure that makes possible the emergence of human cognitive capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies neuronal response associated with meaning processing of Spanish ser and estar copulas. Event-related potential (ERP) technique was used. According to several pragmatic and discourse approaches (Clements, 2006; Maienborn, 2005), the ser/estar alternation in copula+adjective constructions having inanimate referents where both copulas are accepted (e.g. La miel es/está dulce) can be determined by semantic and pragmatic aspects. The objective of the study was to determine how the neuronal response of Spanish language speakers vary according to different semantic and pragmatic levels related with the use of ser and estar verbs. Results show a larger amplitude in N400 component in response to adjectives preceded by estar (La miel está dulce) than in those preceded by ser (La miel es dulce). Differences found in N400 component may show higher semantic and discourse information in estar than in ser copula during predicative interpretation. These results support pragmatic and discourse approaches suggesting the use of semantic and pragmatic information in copulas ser and estar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on semantic processing in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics over the last decades makes necessary a partial revision of the structural linguistic methodological paradigm. The revision aims at achieving a more flexible formulation of the lexical meaning structure. On the grounds of a conception of meaning as a functional network with a neuropsychological base emerging from the close link between semantic and cognitive parts of the lexicon, this paper intends 1) to address in more detail these related parts, and 2) to discuss evidence derived from an analysis of the processing at this level, along with the major facts we know about the internal organization of our brain. All this leads to the description of a new neurocognitive dimension of lexical content within the framework of lexical semantics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aphasia is a language impairment resulting from cerebral damage in persons who have been competent users of their own language. Doctors caring for aphasic patients were among the first who were interested in studying the relationship between brain and language. Although they made detailed clinical and anatomical descriptions, it wasn't until the investigations were made from a linguistic framework that it was possible to explain the language deficits of the patients. Nowadays the linguistic perspective complements the cognitive point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aphasia is a language impairment resulting from cerebral damage in persons who have been competent users of their own language. Doctors caring for the aphasic patients were among the first, who were interested in studying the relationship between brain and language. Although they made detailed clinical and anatomical descriptions, it was until the investigations were made from the linguistic framemark that it was possible to explain the language deficits of the patients. Nowadays the study of the aphasias comes from the linguistic and the cognitive points of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Relational Network Theory (RNT) is a connectionist model of the linguistic system of the individual. In Pathways of the Brain, Lamb (1999) demonstrates that the model is neurologically plausible, but the neuroscientific evidence supporting RNT has not been updated since the publication of such volume. Moreover, RNT has not received significant attention in the last few decades, especially in the Spanish-speaking world. In an attempt to partly overcome these situations, the present paper summarizes the basic principles of RNT and offers updated evidence in favor of the theory's neurological plausibility. Furthermore, the theory is shown to have been constructed via the 'parallel structures approach' to neurolinguistic modeling, its merits and limitations being addressed from a theoretical and a methodological stance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The empirical analysis of the Faculty of Language (henceforth, FL) must necessarily depart from an assessment of the subject's linguistic performance (intact or corresponding to diverse linguistic impairments, of an acquired or inherited nature). At different levels (psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, neurobiological, molecular), such an analysis becomes substantially constrained by different, but significant, methodological caveats. Nevertheless, the likelihood of actually achieving an empirical dissociation (ideally at all those levels of complexity) between language and other cognitive capacities could be ultimately rendered unable by the real (and multifunctional) nature of the neuronal substrate of the FL, by the pleiotropic nature of genes which regulate its development, and eventually by the genuine biological nature of the FL itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, local and European education policies concerning bilingualism are reviewed. A number of concepts are used regarding the learning of a second language as educational method. Then, neuro-psychological processes underlying bilingualism are reviewed. Finally, their implications for learning a second language are addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta un análisis sobre la comunicación verbal. Se destacan algunos apectos de la misma, tales como la cooperación entre las partes involucradas, los sonidos emitidos y las palabras utilizadas en cada contexto. Asimismo, se señalan algunas investigaciones lingüísticas y neurolinguísticas que han contribuído a la investigación en esta disciplina.

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The aim of this article is to show the importance of early multisensorial stimulation and parental communication with the child in the development of language in infancy. We present a synthesis of the main theoretical approaches and results of research on linguistic development, with special attention to the biological and neuroanatomic bases of the acquisition of language. The plasticity of childhood development and early interventions, increased by the parents through their verbal and gestural interactions, can improve the child's linguistic competency from birth. For that reason the Multisensorial Estitsologic Method is proposed. Its effectiveness has been empirically evaluated by means of a quasiexperimental design with an experimental group and a control group (formed by 478 Spanish children of 0 to 6 years). After the stimulating intervention significant progresses in their level of acquisition and development of language are achieved. These results are taken as departure point for further analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The neurolinguistic diagnosis of dysarthria is typical in cases of ataxia and cerebellar syndromes, as consequence of motor disorders that disrupt the motor program preventing the correct completion and coordination of joint movements, velar, of the vocal chords, of the thoracic cage. Within this context, dysprosody plays an important social role, which is the focus of an integral strategy for language development, that starts from a detailed evaluation of language itself. The main objective of this paper was to characterize language and to determine dysprosody variations, starting from an intervention strategy designed for this purpose in 32 ataxic patients. Method: The strategy was developed during a minimum cycle of 28 days. To analyze the language characterization, the percentage, mean and mode were applied and for therapy the ICARS items related to language. All data were processed with the non parametric Wilcoxon test. Results: The results showed that coordination difficulties have a repercussion on language; significant statistical changes were obtained after the application of a strategy aimed to dysprosody applied in a systematic way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When linguists specialized on language disturbances look for more information about these speech pathologies, they find that there is little or no information from Linguistics itself. Certainly, we find out descriptions that lead us to the speech therapy area or which forward us to psycholinguistic definitions that have to do with language acquisition, and internal mechanisms of both comprehension and production of utterances. Other times we obtain exhaustive descriptions from disturbed language of patients with brain damage (aphasias). Of course, all the descriptions are of capital importance for the linguist who is interested on clinical aspects of language; but, where are the limits for each study? Is Clinical Linguistics an only and autonomous discipline? How can Linguistics contribute in fields as Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se describe la programación neurolingüística (PNL). Se define la PNL como la organización y procesamiento de programas mentales ejecutados mediante impulsos neurológicos anteriormente ordenados por el cerebro. Se nota el significado de vocabulario especializado perteneciente a la PNL como "mapa," que se refiere a la interpretación del entorno, "territorio," que significa realidad, y "rapport," que denomina la harmonización de los mapas de varias personas.