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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling sensory integration and embodied cognition in a model of word recognition
AU - Monaghan, Padraic
AU - Nazir, Tatjana A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Performing conceptual tasks that do not involve overt sensory and motor processes, can nonetheless implicate sensory and motor regions of the brain. In models of "embodied" cognition, the sensory and motor brain regions are seen as integral to the representation of the concept. Alternatively, "disembodied" theories of concept representation assume that these activations are peripheral and epiphenomenal to the representation itself. We review three sources of data for embodied cognition - the activation of sensory and motor regions for conceptual tasks, the effect on conceptual task performance when motor areas are otherwise engaged, and behavioral influences on reading in patients with impaired sensory and motor areas. We show that such data is consistent with a connectionist model of embodied cognition, and discuss the sources of data that can distinguish between embodied and disembodied accounts.
AB - Performing conceptual tasks that do not involve overt sensory and motor processes, can nonetheless implicate sensory and motor regions of the brain. In models of "embodied" cognition, the sensory and motor brain regions are seen as integral to the representation of the concept. Alternatively, "disembodied" theories of concept representation assume that these activations are peripheral and epiphenomenal to the representation itself. We review three sources of data for embodied cognition - the activation of sensory and motor regions for conceptual tasks, the effect on conceptual task performance when motor areas are otherwise engaged, and behavioral influences on reading in patients with impaired sensory and motor areas. We show that such data is consistent with a connectionist model of embodied cognition, and discuss the sources of data that can distinguish between embodied and disembodied accounts.
KW - SEMANTIC DEMENTIA
KW - PARKINSONS-DISEASE
KW - MOTOR
KW - LANGUAGE
KW - DEFICITS
KW - CORTEX
KW - MEMORY
KW - ORGANIZATION
KW - KNOWLEDGE
KW - CIRCUITS
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9789812834225
SN - 9812834222
T3 - Progress in neural processing
SP - 337
EP - 348
BT - Connectionist models of behaviour and cognition II : proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, University of Oxford, UK, 16-18 July 2008
A2 - Mayor, J
A2 - Ruh, N
A2 - Plunkett, K
PB - WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
CY - SINGAPORE
T2 - 11th Neural Computational and Psychology Workshop
Y2 - 16 July 2008 through 18 July 2008
ER -