Cognition and Rhetoric: Biological Basis of Meaning and Understanding

Abstract

The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, to explore those approaches that understand cognitive processes as embodied and as a result of our interaction with the environment, and not merely as as a information processing system; and, on the other hand, to show their connexion with the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying meaning and understanding, giving and overview of some of the insights from recent studies in neurorhetorics.

Keywords

• plasticidad cerebral
• percepción intermodal
• neuronas espejo
• neurorretórica
• orígenes del lenguaje
• sinestesia.