Language, computers and cognitive neuroscience

Language, computers and cognitive neuroscience

It is not tissuemicrostructure or functional capability that sets the human brain apart from other organs and systems, but its organisational complexity, and to understand the brain at this level remains one of the great scientific challenges of our age. There is no doubt that computation will prove central to the endeavour, both as a framework for understanding, and a medium for simulating, co...

cognitive neuroscience of foreign language education: myths and realities

this paper summarizes the educational implications of current research on cognitive neuroscience for foreign-language learning to provide an overview of myths and realities in this appealing area of research. although the potential benefits of neuroscientific research into language acquisition are great, there are a number of popular myths that none of which are supported by scientific evidence...

Book Review: “Cognitive neuroscience of language”

Probabilistic language models in cognitive neuroscience: Promises and pitfalls.

Cognitive neuroscientists of language comprehension study how neural computations relate to cognitive computations during comprehension. On the cognitive part of the equation, it is important that the computations and processing complexity are explicitly defined. Probabilistic language models can be used to give a computationally explicit account of language complexity during comprehension. Whe...

DT-MRI Tractography and its Application in Cognitive Neuroscience

Recent advancement of MRI techniques and development of new methods of image analysis have allowed us to study large neural tracts within the human brain. This is based on the principle of diffusion tensor MRI that is similar to that of diffusion-weighted imaging but takes magnitude and direction of the diffusion of water into account. Using this technique we have been able to define large neur...