Works by Ralph-Axel Müller
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- Der (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung.Ralph-Axel Müller (ed.) -1991 - De Gruyter.Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der (un)teilbare Geist" verfügbar.No categories
- Innateness, autonomy, universality? Neurobiological approaches to language.Ralph-Axel Müller -1996 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):611-631.The concepts of the innateness, universality, species-specificity, and autonomy of the human language capacity have had an extreme impact on the psycholinguistic debate for over thirty years. These concepts are evaluated from several neurobiological perspectives, with an emphasis on the emergence of language and its decay due to brain lesion and progressive brain disease.Evidence of perceptuomotor homologies and preadaptations for human language in nonhuman primates suggests a gradual emergence of language during hominid evolution. Regarding ontogeny, the innate component of language (...) capacity is likely to be polygenic and shared with other developmental domains. Dissociations between verbal and nonverbal development are probably rooted in the perceptuomotor specializations of neural substrates rather than the autonomy of a grammar module. Aphasiologicaldata often assumed to suggest modular linguistic subsystems can be accounted for in terms of a neurofunctional model incorporating perceptuomotor-based regional specializationsand distributivity of representations. Thus, dissociations between grammatical functors and content words are due to different conditions of acquisition and resulting differences in neural representation. Human brains are characterized by multifactorial interindividual variability, and strict universality of functional organization is biologically unrealistic.A theoretical alternative is proposed according to which (1) linguistic specialization of brain areas is due to epigenetic and probabilistic maturational events, not to genetic ”hard-wiring,” and (2) linguistic knowledge is neurally represented in distributed cell assemblies whose topography reflects the perceptuomotor modalities involved in the acquisition and use of a given item of knowledge. (shrink)
- 9. Autorenverzeichnis.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 434-436.No categories
- 5. Auf der Suche nach den neuralen Modulen.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 188-366.No categories
- Backmatter.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 444-444.No categories
- Blackboards in the brain.Ralph-Axel Müller -2006 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (1):81-81.Although van der Velde's de Kamps's (vdV&dK) attempt to put syntactic processing into a broader context of combinatorial cognition is promising, their coverage of neuroscientific evidence is disappointing. Neither their case against binding by temporal coherence nor their arguments against recurrent neural networks are compelling. As an alternative, vdV&dK propose a blackboard model that is based on the assumption of special processors (e.g., lexical versus grammatical), but evidence from the cognitive neuroscience of language, which is, overall, less than supportive of (...) such special processors, is not considered. As a consequence, vdV&dK's may be a clever model of syntactic processing, but it remains unclear how much we can learn from it with regard to biologically based human language. (shrink)
- 3. Chomsky, Fodor, Piaget: Modularismus und Holismus in Linguistik und Kognitiver Psychologie.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 58-170.No categories
- (1 other version)1. Einleitung.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 1-5.No categories
- 4. Funktionalismus und Reduktionismus.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 171-187.No categories
- 7. Fazit und Perspektiven.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 399-408.No categories
- 6. Künstliche Modularität.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 367-398.No categories
- 8. Literatur.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 409-433.No categories
- 10. Sachverzeichnis.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 437-443.No categories
- The epigenesis of regional specificity.Ralph-Axel Müller -1996 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):650-675.Chomskyian claims of a genetically hard-wired and cognitively autonomous “universal grammar” are being promoted by generative linguistics as facts about language to the present day. The related doctrine of an evolutionary discontinuity in language emergence, however, is based on misconceptions about the notions of homology and preadaptation. The obvious lack of equivalence between symbolic communicative capacities in existing nonhuman primates and human language does not preclude common roots. Normal and disordered language development is strongly influenced by the genome, but there (...) is no evidence for the existence of specific genes underlying “universal grammar.” In the mature brain, stages of language processing can be distinguished and “first-pass” syntactic analyses appear to precede semantic decoding. However, this partial seriality – as well as behavioral and clinical dissociations between lexical and functional categories – can be best described, not in terms of serially activated and discrete modules, but in terms of classes of cell assemblies that differ in their distributional properties. Whereas cell assemblies involved in semantic interpretation (“content word” assemblies) are widely distributed and are generally less vulnerable to focal lesion, those involved in structural decoding (functor assemblies) are primarily distributed within the left perisylvian cortices and are selectively vulnerable to left perisylvian lesion. These distributional differences are explained in terms of the perceptuomotor components involved in the acquisition of relevant representations. The emerging “motivated” or “toposemantic” brain regional specificity can only be accommodated with “soft” and maturational versions of modularity. The failure to reproduce double dissociations in current connectionist models is due to overly simple neuroscientific assumptions, notably that of overall equipotentiality. Linguistic models should not be expected to be “implemented” in the brain, but need to be constrained by neuroscientific evidence on how biological brains function. (shrink)
- Vorwort.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter.No categories
- Weak evidence for a strong case against modularity in developmental disorders.Ralph-Axel Müller -2002 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (6):764-765.Thomas & Karmiloff- Smith provide evidence from computational modeling against modular assumptions of “Residual Normality” in developmental disorders. Even though I agree with their criticism, I find their choice of empirical evidence disappointing. Cognitive neuroscience cannot as yet provide a complete understanding of most developmental disorders, but what is known is more than enough to debunk the idea of RN.
- 2. Zur Geschichte des Paradigmenkonflikts in Neurologie und Aphasiologie.Ralph-Axel Müller -1991 - InDer (Un)Teilbare Geist: Modularismus Und Holismus in der Kognitionsforschung. De Gruyter. pp. 6-57.No categories
- A big “housing” problem and a trace of neuroimaging: Broca's area is more than a transformation center.Ralph-Axel Müller -2000 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (1):42-42.
- Homology, neurogenetic imprecision, and lesional complexity.Ralph-Axel Müller -1999 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (3):573-574.
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