Embodying meaning: Insights from primates, autism, and Brentano

Neural Networks

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-196

  Gómez, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaze following; Intentionality; Meaning; Primates; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

GAZE FOLLOWING; INTENTIONALITY; MEANING; PRIMATES; THEORY OF MIND;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAMMALS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BRENTANIAN MECHANISM; COGNITION; GAZE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL MEANING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTENTION; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PRIMATES;

EID: 61449104817     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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