Gestaltist though;  Language Origins, Gestural languages

Sound symbolism : Robin Allot

Maluma Takete

Problems of the Ursprache: a possible template

Gestalt theory and Art: Rudolf Arnheim  "Entropy and Art"
 
Nonverbal communications papers

Emotion,  Embodiment vs. Behaviorism and Cognitivism 

Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism : a historical outline
 

Theories of Emotion;  two way causality in facial expression
 

Dreyfus on Merleau Ponty, Neural Networks, Cognitivism
 

Precis of Roll's The Brain and Emotion
 

A review of A Damasio's "The Feeling of What Happens"  Moscaa  (touches on representation controversy)
 

FAU Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
 

Questions:
1. Connectionist accounts of language accord with the general idea of "the arbitrariness of the sign".  Do the dynamics
     ideas, particularly those in spatial systems, offer any possibilities for thinking about these?
2.  How could patterns and emotional states be linked?  Are there universals?  Why should there be, or not be?
     How could culture influence such linkages?
3.  How might body states related to behavior be thought about in dynamics terms?   Think about abstract states like
     stress, autonomic system arousal levels as well as specifics like postures.