The ontological priority of representations
The case of mirror neurons and language
Marco Iacoboni | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
This paper reviews empirical data from monkey neurophysiology and human brain imaging regarding mirror neurons and language. These data are interpreted as suggesting that some of our cognitive intuitions about language and representations may be misleading. For centuries, representations have been conceptualized as secondary, both temporally and spatially, to a primary entity. What if representations have ontological priority? Can we even conceive this idea?
Keywords: ontological priority, mirror neurons, language and representations, monkey neurophysiology, human brain imaging
Published online: 27 May 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.1.1.03iac
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.1.1.03iac
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