Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

We propose two possible approaches to test the claim of cognitive linguistics as a tool to study mind by advocating an intimate relation between mind’s cognitive apparatus and structure of language. The first study involves neuro-feedback technique. This study involves finding neural correlates of the mental experience of free will, information processing of the linguistic entities of free will, and the metaphor free will. In a neuro-feedback setup, if subjects are not able to significantly increase the signal amplitudes (above brain data), then this would be indicative of close structural relation between mind’s cognitive apparatus and the structure of language, thus offering new grounds to legitimize its approach to study mind. The second approach involves developing mathematical models of the relevant perceptual activity and their corresponding linguistic entities and collating these two in finer details for any similitude or patterned differences. Supplementary studies along similar lines are suggested, that include different categories of subjects.