How is the meaning of words and utterances grounded in the dynamics of the brain and in the evolution of beings alive interacting with each other and with their environments? Simply by convention? Or is there an inherent correctness of names, of syllables, or even of sounds? This book examines these issues and presents analyses of the research.

What is the origin of meaning? How does the brain achieve symbolic computation? What are the neural correlates of cognitive processes? These challenging questions at the borderline between neuroscience, cognitive science, nonlinear dynamics, and philosophy are related to the symbol grounding problem: How is the meaning of words and utterances grounded in the dynamics of the brain and in the evolution of beings alive interacting with each other and with their environments? Simply by convention? Or is there an inherent correctness of names, of syllables, or even of sounds? This new book examines these important issues and presents probing analyses of the latest research.

Preface
Stability Conditions in Contextual Emergence
Contextual Emergence of Mental States from Neurodynamics
Phase Coupling Supports Associative Visual Processing: Physiology and Related Models
Processing of Positive versus Negative Emotional Words is Incorporated in Anterior versus Posterior Brain Areas: An ERP Microstate LORETA Study
"Cognitive Genes" Reveal Higher Codon Complexity than "Somatic Genes"
Mutual Phase Synchronisation in Single Trial Data
Ordinal Analysis of EEG Time Series
Robustifying EEG Data Analysis by Removing Outliers
Is Brain Activity Fractal?
The Timing of Neural Processes in Humans: Beyond the Evoked Potentials
Quantification of Order Patterns Recurrence Plots of Event Related Potentials
Neuronal Synchronisation: From Dynamic Feature Binding to Object Representations
Testing for Coupling Asymmetry Using Surrogate Data
What Can We Learn from Single-Trial Event Related Potentials?
The Internal Structure of the N400: Frequency Characteristics of a Language Related ERP Component
Measuring the Thalamocortical Loop in Patients with Neurogenic Pain
Assessment of Connectivity Patterns from Multivariate Time Series by Partial Directed Coherence
The Cortical Implementation of Complex Attribute and Substance Concepts: Synchrony, Frames, and Hierarchical Binding
Index.