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Language, Vision, and Music

Author(s) -

Kevitt Paul Mc,

Mulvihill Conn,

Nualláin Seán Ó

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

ai magazine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597

H-Index - 79

eISSN - 2371-9621

pISSN - 0738-4602

DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v21i4.1537

Subject(s) - ambiguity , cognitive science , cognition , metaphor , computer science , natural language , natural (archaeology) , artificial intelligence , linguistics , natural language processing , psychology , programming language , history , philosophy , archaeology , neuroscience

Language, vision, and music: What common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural and formal), vision, and music seem to share at best the following attributes: a hierarchical organization of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility of self‐reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these three modes, or is the only commonality to be found at the level of such entities as cerebral columnar automata?

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