Neurosemantics

Neurosemantic approach Neurosemantic psychology is an approach to the study of unconscious mental phenomena based on data obtained from studies of brain function. Neurosemantic allows the use of neuroscience to explain some of the fundamental psychological phenomena.

Definition of the concept In general, **neurosemantics** is a field of research related to the study of the patterns of the functioning of the human and animal brain when solving various problems. This is a relatively new direction of modern cognitive psychology, which arose at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and semantics, which studies the semantic meaning of words and concepts that are associated with certain objects in the surrounding world. Such objects are objects, people, animals. Such objects are designated by words and given different meanings depending on the conditions of communication and context. Each word has a semantic content. If a certain meaning is used once, it denotes one object in the world, if this meaning is multi-valued and is used in many sentences and combinations of sentences, it is a definite concept.

Neurosemantics can be seen as a new field of study that combines neuroscience and linguistics. This approach allows us to explain human language using data from the field of neuroscience, such as knowledge about the functioning of the brain and the structure of the nervous system.

The concept of “neurosemantics” was first used in 2008 in the work of psychologist K. Cavaliere and neuroscientist J. Denners. Cavalier showed that using a sight word causes certain changes in attention and the functioning of the visual centers of the brain. From this point on, neurosemantic research began to actively develop in order to understand how the human brain processes information and responds to various stimuli.

Neurosemantic methods allow us to determine how the brain perceives

Neurosemantics is a branch of applied philosophy that studies the problem of semantic aspects of mental states and the specifics of their influence on cognitive activity.

It has been developing as an independent direction only in the last 5-7 years. It was introduced into scientific circulation and began to be developed by a group of researchers led by Denis Vasilyevich Ushakov. In the process of developing the psychology and psychophysiology of attention, they proposed the term “Neuro semantics”. In particular, in 2021, an article appeared in the journal “Questions of Psychology”: Ushakov D.V. Psychology of human-computer interaction: phenomenology of cognitive comfort and ergonomics // Questions of psychology. — 2022. — T.19.- No. 1. P.4-27.

Neurosemantic approach

The neurosemantic model (neurosensory model) of cognitive development is currently one of the main approaches to the study of neurocognitive processes. Theoretical models and experimental studies built on their basis provide a new perspective on the functioning of neural structures.

Most models of perception and pattern recognition involve several types of sensations, as well as various mixtures and combinations of these sensory data “separated” by neurons. In this case, information can be divided into several levels that perform independent operations from each other. For example, visual perception separates and colors light into colors, sounds