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Translational Brain Mapping at the University of Rochester Medical Center: Preserving the Mind Through Personalized Brain Mapping
Published on: August 12, 2019
Lexical access as a brain mechanism
1MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom friedemann.pulvermuller@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/People/Friedemann.Pulvermuller.html.
Abstract:
The following questions are addressed concerning how a theory of lexical access can be realized in the brain: (1) Can a brainlike device function without inhibitory mechanisms? (2) Where in the brain can one expect to find processes underlying access to word semantics, syntactic word properties, phonological word forms, and their phonetic gestures? (3) If large neuron ensembles are the basis of such processes, how can one expect these populations to be connected? (4) In particular, how could one-way, reciprocal, and numbered connections be realized? and, (5) How can a neuroscientific approach for multiple access to the same word in the course of the production of a sentence?
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