Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Shared Mechanisms Hypothesis -- 1.2 An Overview of the Argument of the Book -- 1.3 Some Objections -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- 1.5 How to Read the Book -- 2 Sensorimotor Processing during the Execution and Perception of Reach-to-Grasp Actions -- 2.1 The Early Visual System -- 2.2 The Object Classification Pathway -- 2.3 The Posterior Parietal Cortex -- 2.4 Vision for Attentional Selection -- 2.5 Vision for Action -- 2.6 Planning Higher-Level Actions -- 2.7 The Action Recognition Pathway -- 2.8 Distinctions between Executed and Observed Actions -- 2.9 Summary: The Pathways Involved in Perception and Execution of Reach-to-Grasp Actions -- 2.10 The Order of Sensorimotor Events during the Execution and Perception of Reach Actions -- 2.11 Summary -- 3 Models of Learning and Memory for Sensorimotor Sequences -- 3.1 Baddeley's Model of Working Memory -- 3.2 Working Memory Representations of Action Sequences in PFC -- 3.3 Competition between PFC Plan Assemblies -- 3.4 PFC Plan Activation during Action Recognition -- 3.5 Replaying PFC Plans -- 3.6 Episodic Memory and the Hippocampal System -- 3.7 Hippocampal Episode Representations as Sequences -- 3.8 Cortical Mechanisms for Encoding and Retrieval of Episodic Memories -- 3.9 Summary -- 3.10 An Assessment of the Sensorimotor Model -- 4 A Syntactic Framework: Minimalism -- 4.1 What Is a Syntactic Analysis? -- 4.2 Phonetic Form and Logical Form -- 4.3 X-Bar Theory -- 4.4 The Structure of a Transitive Clause at LF -- 4.5 The IP Projection -- 4.6 DP-Movement and Case Assignment -- 4.7 The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis -- 4.8 The AgrP Projection -- 4.9 Summary -- 5 The Relationship between Syntax and Sensorimotor Structure -- 5.1 Summary of the Sensorimotor Model -- 5.2 Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of "The man grabbed a cup".

5.3 A Sensorimotor Characterization of the X-Bar Schema -- 5.4 Sensorimotor Interpretation of the LF of "The man grabbed a cup" -- 5.5 The Role of LF Revisited -- 5.6 Predictions of the Sensorimotor Account of LF -- 5.7 Summary -- 6 Linguistic Representations in the Brain -- 6.1 Neural Substrates of Language -- 6.2 The Basic Stages of Language Development -- 7 A New Computational Model of Language Development and Language Processing -- 7.1 Learning Single-Word Meanings and the Concept of a Communicative Action -- 7.2 Learning to Generate Syntactically Structured Utterances -- 7.3 Summary and Some Interim Conclusions -- 8 Summary, Comparisons, and Conclusions -- 8.1 A Summary of the Proposals in This Book -- 8.2 Comparison with Other Embodied Models of Language and Cognition -- 8.3 The Nativist-Empiricist Debate about Language -- Notes -- References -- Index.