Robert William Kentridge (1994) Modularity of Mind, Cerebral Localisation and
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Psycoloquy 5(87): Modularity of Mind, Cerebral Localisation and
MODULARITY OF MIND, CEREBRAL LOCALISATION AND
CONNECTIONIST NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Book Review of Miikkulainen on Language-Network
Robert William Kentridge
Psychology Department
Univerity of Durham
Durham DH1 3LE England
robert.kentridge@durham.ac.uk
Abstract
Although Miikkulainen's DISCERN (1993) is a model of
cognition and not the brain, its completely connectionist
construction and similarities between the effects of damage on its
behaviour and the neuropsychology of dyslexia may tempt us to treat
it as a brain model. In particular, we may draw parallels between
the architecture of DISCERN and localisation of function in the
cortex. I argue that "modularity" of the brain may be organised in
terms of time-scales as well as space. Forms of "brain-damage" in
connectionist neuropsychology may differ profoundly from those
causing similar effects in people.
Keywords
computational modeling, connectionism, distributed neural
networks, episodic memory, lexicon, natural language processing,
scripts.
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