Abstract
We describe a connectionist model designed to reflect
some of the anatomy of the visual pathways, notably
the precise division of the human fovea and its
subsequent contralateral projection to the cortex. The
model was trained on a realistically large-scale problem,
mapping between Chinese orthography and phonology.
This split-fovea model replicated the interaction
between character regularity and frequency that has
been found in Chinese phonetic compound naming
tasks. It also provided cross-language support for the
hemispheric desynchronization account of dyslexia.
Finally, the model predicted different regularity effects
between characters with different phonetic radical
positions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Pages | 601-606 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |