The processing of verbs and nouns in neural networks: Insights from synthetic brain imaging

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 401-408

  Cangelosi, Angelo ^a   Parisi, Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE NET; NEURAL ANALYZERS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842554771     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00353-5     Document Type: Article

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