This is how I explain it: when we perceive a stimulus, word in this case, it doesn't reach our brain as a single neuron firing or synapse, but as a set of already processed neuronal groups or sets of synapses, that each recall various other memories, concepts and neuronal group. Let me clarify this. In the example you give, the wod artcop might reach us as a set of stimuli: art, cop, mediu-sized word, word that begins with a, and so on. All these connect activate various maps in our memory, and if something substantial is monitored at some point (going with Richard's theory of the monitor, I don't have other references of this actually), we form a response.
This is more obvious in the case of sight - where an image is first broken into various compontents that are separately elaborated: colours, motion, edges, shapes, etc. - and then further sent to the upper parts of the memory where they can be associated to higher level concepts. If any of this is not clear let me know, instead of adding me to your kill-lists ;-P Valentina On 7/31/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vlad: > >> I think Hofstadter's exploration of jumbles ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble ) covers this ground. You don't >> just recognize the word, you work on trying to connect it to what you >> know, and if set of letters didn't correspond to any word, you give >> up. >> > > There's still more to word recognition though than this. How do we decide > what is and isn't, may or may not be a word? A neologism? What may or may > not be words from: > > cogrough > dirksilt > thangthing > artcop > coggourd > cowstock > > or "fomlepaung" or whatever? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- A true friend stabs you in the front. - O. Wilde Einstein once thought he was wrong; then he discovered he was wrong. For every complex problem, there is an answer which is short, simple and wrong. - H.L. Mencken ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
