Real-Time Parallel Processing of Grammatical Structure in the Fronto-Striatal System: A Recurrent Network Simulation Study Using Reservoir Computing
Figure 7
Two-sentence discourse processing.
Four example discourses. A–C and B–D use the same first sentence form respectively, and A–B and C–D use the same second sentence form, respectively. This yields four distinct coded meaning patterns. For each, in the second sentence, the anaphoric reference of “he” and “it” must be resolved, such that “he” is associated with the proper noun, and “it” with the common noun (i.e. the one followed by “the”) from the first sentence. A. Noun 1 is the Agent of Action 1 and Action 2. B. Noun 1 is the Object of Action 1 and 2 C. Agent 1 Object 2 D. Object 1 Agent 2. Note that when comparing “then he hit it” in A and B, the coded meaning is different, dependant on the preceding sentence in the discourse. Similar for “then it hit him” in C and D. Simulation conditions, activation time, AT = 20, and number of reservoir units, N = 300.