elwoodblues

I'm in the middle of researching a paper that deals with heuristics and language processing in the human mind. My basic thesis is that the only way to fundamentally understand language (and then model it) is to look at how it works, where it works. That is, in the brain. The brain works through heuristic processes, so language should best be described through heuristics, not the hard, almost arbitrary rules many linguists try to bind it by.

I'm looking for information on heuristics, and especially information on how the brain is alleged to process information on the most fundamental level (especially how this would be different from a computer processing data). I'm getting ready to dig into a Hofstadter book, "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought". If anyone has any additional resources that might help me, online or off, please share.

Thanks for the help!