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June 12, 2009

Letter Recognition: From Perception to Representation

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology Edited by Max Coltheart, Matthew Finkbeiner Detailed computational modelling of reading has been much pursued in the past twenty years, and several specific computational models of visual word recognition and reading aloud have been developed. These models offer computational accounts of many aspects of reading, but all have neglected the front e

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May 31, 2009

Synaesthesia in Frankenstein

One of the new ideas in synaesthesia research is that affected people perhaps don't develop mixed senses as their brains develop, they just fail to lose them. It seems most children might start with naturally mixed senses before perception becomes segregated through pruning of the fuzzy neural pathways.I've just noted an interesting article in Cognitive Neuropsychology on how this idea actually h

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