Robin Allott: Language Body Brain and Evolution
New College Presentation: Embodied Language and the Ascent of Intelligence
Brain and Body Word and Gesture
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Embodied Language The Ascent of Intelligence
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"En el corazón de todos los inviernos vive una primavera palpitante, y detrás de cada noche, viene una aurora sonriente".[Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)]
Embodied Language:Selected Citations
"Language allows us to analyse (decompose, mirror) the structure of our actions, to identify
the neural sub-actions constituting the total action."
"There is a Lexicon of Actions from which the lexicon of words is derived"
Anatomizing mind
CHAMELEON THEORY OF PERCEPTION
All bodily movements are changes in posture - and posture is body-image. We visualise any movement (of arm, leg, head, hand, mouth) as a change in body-image, a change in posture - the movement brings our actual posture into coincidence with our visualised new body-image, visualised posture. ... Perception appears to be a process similar to that by which the chameleon changes its bodily state to match its background. Perception (on the chameleon theory) is internal ordering guided by external ordering. The perception of speech and the perception of gesture are aspects of this chameleon-process. Ideomotor action is the reverse process. Both stem from the integration of the motor system and perception.
[Extract from R. Allott 1994. Gestural Equivalence of Language LOS UCAL Berkeley]
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ANIMAL GESTURES
Golden frogs communicate by arm movements
Fiddler crabs also gesture
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MIND BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
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MAN AS MACHINE: Reconsidering La Mettrie
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ASCENT OF INTELLIGENCE
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HOW CHILDREN ACQUIRE LANGUAGE
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The Child and the World: Complete Text
MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
MOTOR CONTROL AND LANGUAGE FUNCTION [ Motor control references]
GESTURAL EQUIVALENCE OF LANGUAGE
THE PHYSICAL FOUNDATION OF LANGUAGE: Videos
THE POWER OF POETRY ORWith Spoken Text
GRAVITY AS A REPULSIVE FORCE [videos]
HOW THE ALPHABET WAS INVENTED [video]
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"I wish to God there were more automata in the world like you" [Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley]
"Language allows us to analyse (decompose, mirror) the structure of our actions, to identify
the neural sub-actions constituting the total action."
"There is a Lexicon of Actions from which the lexicon of words is derived"
Anatomizing mind
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ELIZABETH BURROWS (née Allott)
