Mind operational semantics and brain operational architectonics: a putative correspondence.
The open neuroimaging journal July 8, 2010 Giulio Benedetti, Giorgio Marchetti, Alexander A Fingelkurts et al.
The paper proposes that linguistic thought and brain activity can be linked through the concept of "operations." Mind Operational Semantics (OS), based on introspection and language, analyzes word meanings into elemental mental operations, with attention playing a key role. Linguistic thought forms a hierarchy of operations using "correlators" that bind together other elements called "correlata" into sentences. Brain Operational Architectonics (OA), based on EEG and MEG data, describes conscious phenomena as arising from transient, synchronized neuronal assemblies (Operational Modules) in a hierarchy of complexity. The authors hypothesize that OS's elemental operations, correlators, and correlational networks correspond to OA's Operational Modules of increasing complexity. Proposed experiments aim to verify this correspondence, suggesting an integrated continuum between brain and mind.