A neuronal model of the language cortex

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 10-12, 2007, Pages 1914-1919

  Garagnani, Max ^a   Wennekers, Thomas ^b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired neural network; Cell assembly; Hebbian learning; Language acquisition; Word and pseudoword EEG MEG response

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

HEBBIAN LEARNING; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE-LEARNING PROCESS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34247633745     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.076     Document Type: Article

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