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Lexical access as a brain mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller*
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, CambridgeCB2 2EF, United Kingdomhttp://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/People/Friedemann.Pulvermuller.html
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Abstract

The following questions are addressed concerning how a theory of lexical access can be realized in the brain: (1) Can a brainlike device function without inhibitory mechanisms? (2) Where in the brain can one expect to find processes underlying access to word semantics, syntactic word properties, phonological word forms, and their phonetic gestures? (3) If large neuron ensembles are the basis of such processes, how can one expect these populations to be connected? (4) In particular, how could one-way, reciprocal, and numbered connections be realized? and, (5) How can a neuroscientific approach for multiple access to the same word in the course of the production of a sentence?

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Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 297 - 299
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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References

This commentary originally appeared in the Levelt et al. treatment in BBS 22(1) (pp. 52–54).

Commentary on William J. M. Levelt, Ardi Roelofs, & Antje S. Meyer (1999). A theory of lexical access in speech production. BBS 22(1):1–75.