Neural time-course as evidence for automaton theories

John T. Hale (Université de Cornell, invité LabEx)
Neural time-course as evidence for automaton theories

This class applies the automaton-theoretic view to brain data, considering the time-course of signals collected using fMRI. To what degree can these be interpreted as evidence for syntactic structure-building?

Recommended reading:

• Hale et al 2015  http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/jth99/hale-et-al-cmcl15.pdf
• Pallier et al 2011 http://www.pallier.org/Publications/Pallier.Devauchelle.Dehaene.pnas.201...
• Smolensky and Legendre 2006 chapter 8 and earlier chapters as needed
• http://www.amazon.fr/Harmonic-Mind-Computation-Optimality-Theoretic-Arch...