nonsymbolic

Imitation deficits have been reported on a variety of tasks including symbolic and nonsymbolic body movements, symbolic and functional object use, vocalizations, and facial expressions.

Gregor called in his majordomo, and sent him off to the Residence's vault for an Auditor's symbolic chain of office, and the very nonsymbolic electronic seal that went with it.

Yet even here, in such quotidian noticings, there is an intimation of the ethical significance of the nonmetaphorical, nonsymbolic given, the everyday datum of experience that is itself miraculous ("it's real, / it's there / it's life").

To be grounded, the symbol system would have to be augmented with nonsymbolic, sensorimotor capacities-the capacity to interact autonomously with that world of objects, events, actions, properties and states that its symbols are systematically interpretable (by us) as referring to.

Skoyles and Sagan for example argues that human brain expansion by increasing the prefrontal cortex would have created a brain capable of symbolizing its previously nonsymbolic cognition, and that this process, slow to begin with, increasingly accelerated during the last 100,000 years.