Rowan Sommers | "When connectionism met semantics", starring the hippocampus
Gastvortrag
- Datum: 01.10.2021
- Uhrzeit: 11:30 - 12:30
- Vortragende(r): Rowan Sommers
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Department of Neurobiology of Language, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Ort: MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
- Raum: Zoom Meeting
- Gastgeber: CBS CoCoNUT
An important goal of semantics is to explain how words refer to objects through context. Connectionist theories are immensely popular in neuroscience at the moment: most cognitive neuroscientists believe that cognition can be explained by the spread of activation over hierarchical, semantic networks. While connectionism can partially explain how the brain understands word reference, I will argue that it cannot explain all phenomena related to reference. Instead, we propose to complement connectionist networks with a separate bundle memory module that allows us to explain a greater range of referential phenomena. Finally, we will make the case that the hippocampus implements this bundle memory module.