Does computational linguistics help to elucidate brain representations of lexical meaning?

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• Dr. Francesca Carota (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology)
• Friday 03 November 2017, 12:00-13:00
• FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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Current computational linguistics offers a wide range of methods for assessing semantic similarity among words, basing conceptual meaning either on word co-occurrence vectors or on abstract hierarchical relationships between concepts. To what extent do these different approaches capture brain information-encoding of lexical meaning? Putting in parallel computational and neural language processing, my recent studies provide evidence that both co-occurrence and hierarchical relationships affect brain activity patterns, but in distinct neuronal networks. Modality-preferential sensory and motor cortex emphasises hierarchical links among concepts, whilst modality-independent semantic regions distributional statistics.

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