Adaptation of Multi-Faceted Psycholinguistic Models for Research in Neuroscience

This article focuses on the methodological framework of modern anthropocentric linguistics, an emerging interdisciplinary field of research. With new interdisciplinary research objects that cannot be analyzed within a single discipline or paradigm, it is important to adopt a research logic based on interdisciplinary cognitive attitudes and adapt the established scientific concepts accordingly. Here, we review the main interdisciplinary research objects, such as communication and language ability, and explain how they can be parameterized. Communication, as an adaptive behavior of a social human, can be explored through the interpretive categories of autopoiesis theory to build a model of a communicant for further experimental verification. Language ability can be effectively studied with the help of experimental research tools that analyze speech in emotionally stressful situations and identify patterns in the verbalization of emotions. These experimental data can be obtained by an association experiment, in which the associative field is understood as a constitutive element of the association-verbal network segment defining the rules of knowledge processing. The research tools and objects discussed in this article can be useful in medical practice, particularly in the diagnosis of speech disorders by detecting the stages of speech production and comprehension in which the deviations occur. Research problems that require further investigation include the development of models explaining the instability of word meaning, the formulation of universal psycholinguistic principles of sense production, and the discovery of a correlation between sense production and somatic processes.

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