On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:53:10 -0700, Paul C Bernhardt wrote:
>Here is the link to the article in PLoS One.
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025107 

Oddly enough, I provided this link in my original post.  But I supposed
a little redundancy might be a good thing.

>Curiously, PLoS One does not have a psychology category. Does have a mental 
>health category and neuroscience category. This article is classified as 
>neuroscience, even though I don't see any neuroscience in it. I guess my 
>definition of neuroscience is too narrow. 

The study fall into the category of social neuroscience, specifically,
the neurophysiological basis of person perception.  Here is what the
authors say about the connectionist model they present to simulate
the possible neural processing involved:

|To more rigorously examine the underlying processing that hypothetically 
|gave rise to the pattern of categorization responses and hand-movement 
|data above, we implemented a simulation of the results using a new 
|instantiation of the computational model described in [14]. The model is 
|a recurrent connectionist network with stochastic interactive activation
| [26], [27], depicted in Fig. 4. It provides an approximation of the kind 
|of processing that might take place in a human brain [21], [26], [28], [29], 
|specifically in the context of perceiving other people.

Figure 4, which shows the connectionist model, can be accessed here:
http://www.plosone.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0025107&imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0025107.g004

One could argue that the problem with this model is that it is more like
a rule and symbol architecture, similar to the Collins and Loftus semantic
network model, then a "true" connectionist like, say, the net talk model
which is a three level neural network that takes printed text and input
and provides spoken words as output.  The model presented here is
more of a hybrid model (i.e., both rule & symbol and connectionist).

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]





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