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success of structuralism in linguistics and its failure in other fields is given by L. Jackson,
ThePovertyofStructuralism:LiteratureandStructuralistTheory, Longman, 1991.The author
argues that when one reduces systems to interactions, one neglects the specific content and
properties of the elements of the system, and this approach prevents a full understanding
of the system under discussion. Cited on page 238.
209 For a view of the mental abilities different from that of Piaget (described on page 238),
a presently much discussed author is the Soviet experimental psychologist Lev Vigotsky,
whose path-breaking ideas and complicated life are described, e.g., in Lev Vigotsky,
Mind in Society, Harvard University Press, 1978, or in René van der Veer &
Jaan Valsiner, Understanding Vigotsky: a Quest for Synthesis, Blackwell Publishers,
1994. More extensive material can be found in the extensive work by René van der Veer
& Jaan Valsinger, TheVigotsky Reader, Blackwell, 1994. Cited on page 239.
210 A somewhat unconventional source for more details is the beautiful text by
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy
Tales, Knopf, 1976. Cited on page 239.
211 A simple introduction is Manfred Spitzer, Lernen – Gehirnforschung und Schule des
Lebens, Elsevier, 2007. Cited on page 241.
212 See the beautiful textbook by Martin Trepel, Neuroanatomie: Struktur und Funktion,
Urban & Fischer, 5th edition, 2012. It also shows the parts of the brain dedicated to motion
planing and control. Cited on page 241.
213 Quoted in V. Harlen, R. Rappmann & P. Schata, Soziale Plastik – Materialien zu
Joseph Beuys, Achberger Verlag, 1984, p. 61. Cited on page 242.
214 The problems appearing when one loses the ability to classify or to memorise are told in
the beautiful book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks,TheManWhoMistookHisWifefor
a Hat, Picador, 1985, which collects many case studies he encountered in his work. More
astonishing cases are collected in his equally impressive text An Anthropologist on Mars,
Picador, 1995.
See also the beautiful text Donald D. Hoffman, Visual Intelligence – How WeCreate
What We See, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998, and the www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff website
associated to it. Cited on pages 242 and 246.
215 For a passionate introduction to the connections between language and the brain from a
Chomskian perspective, see the bestselling book by Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct
– How the Mind Creates Language, Harper Perennial, 1994. The green idea sentence
is discussed in a chapter of the book. Cited on pages 242, 287, and 306.
216 An introduction to neurology is Joseph Ledoux, Synaptic Self:HowOurBrainsBecome
WhoWeAre, Viking Press, 2002. Cited on page 243.
217 Another good introduction into the study of classifiers is James A. Anderson, An Introduction
to Neural Networks, MIT Press, 1995. An introduction to computer science is
given in Glenn Brookshear, Computer Science, An Overview, 6th edition, Addison
Wesley, 2000, or in Rick Decker & Stuart Hirshfield, The Analytical Engine: An
Introduction to Computer Science Using the Internet, Brooks/Cole Publishers, 1998. Cited
on page 243.
218 An overview of the status of the research into the origin of bipedalism is given by B. Wood,
Four legs good,twolegs better, Nature363, pp. 587–588, 17 June 1983. Cited on page 243.
219 A good introduction to neural nets is J. Hertz, A. Krogh & R. Palmer, Introduction
totheTheory ofNeuralComputation, Addison Wesley, 1991. Cited on page 244.
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