George F.R. Ellis
List of John Benjamins publications for which George F.R. Ellis plays a role.
Articles
2011 Chapter 9. Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language Homo Symbolicus: The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality, Henshilwood, Christopher S. and Francesco d'Errico (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article
The purpose of language is prediction and problem solving in the social and ecological context. Its implementation is enabled by the combination of bottom-up and top-down causation in the brain. Visual thinking develops basic abilities of pattern recognition and classification, but music and play… read more
2005 Neural development: Affective and immune system influences Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. 81–119 | Article