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| Speaker: | John A. Bullinaria |
| Birkbeck College | |
| University of London | |
| Date: | Tuesday 11th November |
| Time: | 11:30am |
| Place: | E6A 357 |
Abstract:
Psychologists have carried out numerous reading, spelling, lexical decision and past tense production experiments (on a range of normal subjects and brain damaged patients) with view to understanding the representations and processes involved in these basic language processing abilities. I shall present an overview of my own work on modelling these tasks and show how some very simple connectionist (i.e. neural network) models can easily account for a surprising amount of the experimental data. Along the way I shall show how connectionist models automatically provide natural accounts of various developmental, reaction time, priming, speed-accuracy trade-off, time-course and brain damage effects. .
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| Last modified: November, 1997 |