Nuevos retos en la investigación del contenido léxico: Elementos para una neurosemántica

Abstract

Research on semantic processing in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics over the last decades makes necessary a partial revision of the structural linguistic methodological paradigm. The revision aims at achieving a more fl exible formulation of the lexical meaning structure. On the grounds of a conception of meaning as a functional network with a neuropsychological base emerging from the close link between semantic and cognitive parts of the lexicon, this paper intends 1) to address in more detail these related parts, and 2) to discuss evidence derived from an analysis of the processing at this level, along with the major facts we know about the internal organization of our brain. All this leads to the description of a new neurocognitive dimension of lexical content within the framework of lexical semantics.