The first graduate courses on neurosemiotics were taught in some American and Canadian universities since 1970s. The term 'neurosemiotics' is also not much older.[2]
Neurosemiotics demonstrates which are the necessary conditions and processes responsible forsemiosis in the neural tissue. It also describes the differences in the complexity of meaning making in animals of different complexity of thenervous system and thebrain.[3][4][5][6]
^Roepstorff, Andreas 2004. Cellular neurosemiotics: Outline of an interpretive framework. In: Schult, Joachim (ed.),Biosemiotik – praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen für die Einzelwissenschaften. Berlin: VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft, 133–154.