Abstract
A computational model for reading that takes into account the different processing abilities of the two cerebral hemispheres is presented. This dual hemispheric reading model closely follows the original computational lines due to Kowamoto (J Mem Lang 32:474-516, 1993) but postulates a difference in architecture between the right and left hemispheres. Specifically it is assumed that orthographic, phonological and semantic units are completely connected in the left hemisphere, while there are no direct connections between phonological and orthographic units in the right hemisphere. It is claimed that this architectural difference results in hemisphere asymmetries in resolving lexical ambiguity and more broadly in the processing of written words. Simulation results bear this out. First, we show that the two networks successfully simulate the time course of lexical selection in the two cerebral hemispheres. Further, we were able to see a computational advantage of two separate networks, when information is transferred from the right hemisphere network to the left hemisphere network. Finally, beyond reproducing known empirical data, this dual hemispheric reading model makes novel and surprising predictions that were found to be consistent with new human data.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 125-147 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence |
Volume | 59 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by grant number 956/06 from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), by the Caesarea Rothschild Institute, the Neurocomputation Laboratory and the Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making of the University of Haifa. The computational results were part of the M.Sc. thesis of Hananel Hazan at the University of Haifa. Portions of this work were presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Los Angeles, 2007) and the WAPCV07 Workshop (Hyderabad, 2007) [38].
Keywords
- Brain hemispheres
- Corpus collusum
- Disambiguation of natural language
- Modeling
- Neural networks
- Simulation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applied Mathematics