Er no, I don't believe in killing people :)
I'm not quite sure what you're what getting at. I was just trying to add
another layer of complexity to the brain's immensely multilayered processing.
Our processing of new words/word combinations shows that there is a creative
aspect to this processing - it isn't just matching. Some of this might be done
by standard verbal associations/ semantic networks - e.g. yes IMO "artcop"
could be a word for, say, art critic - cops "police", and art can be seen as
being policed - I may even have that last expression in memory. But in other
cases, the processing may have to be done by imaginative association/drawing -
"dirksilt" could just conceivably be a word, if I imagine some dirk/dagger-like
tool being used on silt, (doesn't make much sense but conceivable for my brain)
- I doubt that such reasoning could be purely verbal.
Valentina: 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
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?
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