TY - JOUR
T1 - Two hemispheres-two networks
T2 - A computational model explaining hemispheric asymmetries while reading ambiguous words
AU - Peleg, Orna
AU - Manevitz, Larry
AU - Hazan, Hananel
AU - Eviatar, Zohar
N1 - 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].
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Brain hemispheres
KW - Corpus collusum
KW - Disambiguation of natural language
KW - Modeling
KW - Neural networks
KW - Simulation
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U2 - 10.1007/s10472-010-9210-1
DO - 10.1007/s10472-010-9210-1
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AN - SCOPUS:78650236422
SN - 1012-2443
VL - 59
SP - 125
EP - 147
JO - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
JF - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
IS - 1
ER -