?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Missing+Link+between+Morphemic+Assemblies+and+Behavioral+Responses%3Aa+Bayesian+Information-Theoretical+model+of+lexical+processing&rft.creator=Moscoso+del+Prado+Martin%2C+Fermin&rft.creator=Aleksandar%2C+Kostic&rft.creator=Dusica%2C+Filipovic-Djurdjevic&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Statistical+Models&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Neural+Modelling&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Morphology&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=We+present+the+Bayesian+Information-Theoretical+(BIT)+model+of+lexical+processing%3A+A+mathematical+model+illustrating+a+novel+approach+to+the+modelling+of+language+processes.+The+model+shows+how+a+neurophysiological+theory+of+lexical+processing+relying+on+Hebbian+association+and+neural+assemblies+can+directly+account+for+a+variety+of+eects+previously+observed+in+behavioral+experiments.+We+develop+two+information-theoretical+measures+of+the+distribution+of+usages+of+a+word+or+morpheme.+These+measures+are+calculated+through+unsupervised+means+from+corpora.+We+show+that+our+measures+succesfully+predict+responses+in+three+visual+lexical+decision+datasets+investigating+the+processing+of+in%0Aectional+morphology+in+Serbian+and+English+languages%2C+and+the+eects+of+polysemy+and+homonymy+in+English.+We+discuss+how+our+model+provides+a+neurophysiological+grounding+for+the+facilitatory+and+inhibitory+eects+of+dierent+types+of+lexical+neighborhoods.+In+addition%2C+our+results+show+how%2C+under+a+model+based+on+neural+assemblies%2C+distributed+patterns+of+activation+naturally+result+in+the+arisal+of+discrete+symbol-like+structures.+Therefore%2C+the+BIT+model+oers+a+point+of+reconciliation+in+the+debate+between+distributed+connectionist+and+discrete+localist+models.+Finally%2C+we+argue+that+the+modelling+framework+exemplied+by+the+BIT+model%2C+is+a+powerful+tool+for+integrating+the+different+levels+of+the+description+of+the+human+language%0Aprocessing+system.&rft.date=2006-02&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4754%2F1%2Fversion2.pdf&rft.identifier=++Moscoso+del+Prado+Martin%2C+Fermin+and+Aleksandar%2C+Kostic+and+Dusica%2C+Filipovic-Djurdjevic++(2006)+The+Missing+Link+between+Morphemic+Assemblies+and+Behavioral+Responses%3Aa+Bayesian+Information-Theoretical+model+of+lexical+processing.+++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4754%2F