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by oxtopus
3921 days ago
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Implications are that left mid-superior temporal cortex (LmSTC) carries information about sentence-level meaning, which had kind of already been implied in prior experimentation. The discussion states that they "Provide preliminary evidence for a long-standing theoretical conjecture of cognitive science: that the brain, on some level, functions like a classical computer, representing structured semantic combinations by explicitly encoding the values of abstract variables", which is little more than hyperbole. It's interesting, insofar as they identify a very specific region of the brain dedicated to a specific aspect of understanding language, and which plays a small role in a larger network of regions, but it's a bit of a stretch to imply that it's the "most important paper in cognitive neuroscience in many years". Pinker is quoted because this provides some empirical evidence for some of his theories. |
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