Pattern perception and computational complexity: Introduction to the special issue

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1598, 2012, Pages 1925-1932

  Tecumseh Fitch, W ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b   Hagoort, Peter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Brain imaging; Comparative cognition; Formal language theory; Pattern perception; Theory of computation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPLEXITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANGUAGE; NEUROLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84862146438     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0099     Document Type: Article

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