Garagnani, M.; Wennekers, Thomas and Pulvermüller, Friedemann. 2006. A neuronal model of the language cortex. Neurocomputing, 70(10-12), pp. 1914-1919. ISSN 0925-2312 [Article]

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We modelled language-learning processes in a brain-inspired model of the language cortex. The network consisted of neuron-like
elements (graded-response units) and mimicked the neuroanatomical areas in the perisylvian language cortex and the intrinsic and mutual connections within and between them. Speaking words creates correlated activity in motor and auditory cortical systems. This correlated activity might play an important role in setting up word representations at the neuronal level [D.B. Fry, The development of the phonological system in the normal and deaf child, in: F. Smith, F.A. Miller, (Eds.), The genesis of language MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966, pp. 187–206; F. Pulvermüller, Words in the Brain’s Language, Behav. Brain Sci. 22 (1999) 253–279]. We simulated this language-learning process and used the network to simulate neurophysiological brain responses to words and meaningless ‘‘pseudowords’’ as they have been documented using EEG and MEG.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.076
Keywords:	Cell assembly, Hebbian learning, Language acquisition, Biologically inspired neural network, Word and pseudoword EEG MEG response
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 10 November 2006 Published
Item ID:	27707
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2019 10:46
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2019 10:46
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27707

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