Abstract
A model of certain aspects of the cortex related to reading is developed corresponding to ongoing
exploration of psychophysical and computational experiments on how the two hemispheres work in
humans. The connectivity arrangements between modelled areas of orthography, phonology and semantics
are according to the theories of Eviatar and Peleg, in particular with distinctions between the connectivity in
the right and left hemisphere. The two hemispheres are connected and interact both in training and testing in
a reasonably "natural" way. We found that the RH (right hemisphere) serves to maintain alternative
meanings under this arrangement longer than the LH for homophones. This corresponds to the usual
theories (about homographs) while, surprisingly, the LH maintains alternative meanings longer then the RH
for heterophones. This allows the two hemispheres, working together to resolve ambiguities regardless of
when the disambiguating information arrives. Human experiments carried out subsequent to these results
bear this surprising result ou
exploration of psychophysical and computational experiments on how the two hemispheres work in
humans. The connectivity arrangements between modelled areas of orthography, phonology and semantics
are according to the theories of Eviatar and Peleg, in particular with distinctions between the connectivity in
the right and left hemisphere. The two hemispheres are connected and interact both in training and testing in
a reasonably "natural" way. We found that the RH (right hemisphere) serves to maintain alternative
meanings under this arrangement longer than the LH for homophones. This corresponds to the usual
theories (about homographs) while, surprisingly, the LH maintains alternative meanings longer then the RH
for heterophones. This allows the two hemispheres, working together to resolve ambiguities regardless of
when the disambiguating information arrives. Human experiments carried out subsequent to these results
bear this surprising result ou
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ICFC-ICNC 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and International Conference on Neural Computation, [parts of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence IJCCI 2010], Valencia, Spain, October 24-26, 2010 |
| Editors | Joaquim Filipe, Janusz Kacprzyk |
| Publisher | SciTePress |
| Pages | 271-278 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789898425324 |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Event | International Conference on Neural Computation, ICNC 2010 and of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation, ICFC 2010 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 24 Oct 2010 → 26 Oct 2010 |
Publication series
| Name | ICFC 2010 ICNC 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and International Conference on Neural Computation |
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Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Neural Computation, ICNC 2010 and of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation, ICFC 2010 |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Valencia |
| Period | 24/10/10 → 26/10/10 |
Keywords
- Simulation
- Neural network
- Corpus collosum