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- ↑ Kull, Kalevi; Favareau, Donald 2023. Neurosemiotics: A brief history of its development and key concerns. In: García, Adolfo M.; Ibáñez, Agustín (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain. New York: Routledge, 13–29.
- ↑ Bouissac, Paul 1998. Neurosemiotics. In: Bouissac, Paul (ed.), Encyclopedia of Semiotics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 446–447.
- ↑ Favareau, Donald 2010. Neurosemiotics. In: Cobley, Paul (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Semiotics. London: Routledge, 275–276.
- ↑ Grzybek, Peter (ed.) 1993. Psychosemiotik – Neurosemiotik: Psychosemiotics – neurosemiotics. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Brockmeyer.
- ↑ Roepstorff, Andreas 2004. Cellular neurosemiotics: Outline of an interpretive framework. In: Schult, Joachim (ed.), Biosemiotik – praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen für die Einzelwissenschaften. Berlin: VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft, 133–154.