conference Paul Smolensky

[Sharon Peperkamp (by way of Ora Matushansky <matushan@univ-paris8.fr>)]

Le Dйpartement d'Etudes Cognitives de l'ENS a le plaisir de vous inviter а 
la confйrence de clфture de la Chaire Blaise Pascal de Paul Smolensky
le mercredi 16 juin а 17h

Salle des Actes
Ecole Normale Supйrieure
45, Rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris

Grammatical structure in neural activation: Bridging discrete and 
continuous computation in the mind/brain
Paul Smolensky
Johns Hopkins University

A central element of the mind-brain problem can be stated, ‘how can the 
continuous, numerical nature of neural computation give rise to the 
discrete, categorical and abstract nature of mental computation?’ A 
homomorphism between vector space operators and symbolic functions provides 
the foundation of an approach to resolving this dilemma. The 
superpositional character of neural representations (activation patterns or 
vectors) helps explain why mental sub-processes need to compute discrete 
outputs. The approach is illustrated by computational models of neural 
networks that contain grammatical knowledge and discretization processes, 
and compute grammatical representations. These models offer explanations 
for a number of general empirical findings concerning speakers’ production 
of phonological sequences.



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