SFB/FK-427 Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation
Schema Theory as a Framework for Studying the Brain Mechanisms of Action, Passion, and Language
Vortrag mit Michael A. Arbib
16.10.2008, 16:00 bis 17:30 Uhr s.t., Neuer Senatssaal, Universität zu Köln
Language sits midway between a society and the brain of each member. Looking up toward a society we can ask how language use, even though it varies from person, coheres into what we call a social schema (akin to Émile Durkheim’s "collective representations") that guides a newcomer acquiring the language. Looking at each individual, we can ask at the psychological level what schemas -- viewed as providing the elements for a distributed account of mental function -- are required to support the individual's mastery of vocabulary, grammar and the use of language. Finally, we can probe inward to the brain to seek to understand the neural schemas -- the schemas understood as embodied within the brain's neural circuitry. All this will be placed within the broader framework of a schema theory -- neural, psychological and social -- that embraces action and perception and the passions (from motivation to emotion) that provide the motor for behavior.
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