Simulating brain damage

@article{citeulike:263834, abstract = {In 1944 a young soldier suffered a bullet wound to the head. He survived the war with a strange disability: although he could read and comprehend some words with ease, many others gave him trouble. He read the word antique as "vase" and uncle as "nephew." The injury was devastating to the patient, G.R., but it provided invaluable information to researchers investigating the mechanisms by which the brain comprehends written language. A properly functioning system for converting letters on a page to spoken sounds reveals little of its inner structure, but when that system is disrupted, the peculiar pattern of the resulting dysfunction may offer essential clues to the original, undamaged architecture.}, address = {Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.}, author = {Hinton, G. E. and Plaut, D. C. and Shallice, T. }, citeulike-article-id = {263834}, issn = {0036-8733}, journal = {Scientific American}, keywords = {brain, cogsci, computational, computational-modeling, dynamical-systems, dyslexia, modeling, networks, neuralnetwork, neuro, neuroimaging, neuropsych, neuroscience, nust, reading, review, simulation}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {76--82}, posted-at = {2005-11-06 00:32:30}, priority = {0}, title = {Simulating brain damage}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8235551}, volume = {269}, year = {1993} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:263834 L3 - citeulike-article-id:263834 TI - Simulating brain damage JF - Scientific American VL - 269 IS - 4 SP - 76 EP - 82 AD - Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. SN - 0036-8733 N2 - In 1944 a young soldier suffered a bullet wound to the head. He survived the war with a strange disability: although he could read and comprehend some words with ease, many others gave him trouble. He read the word antique as "vase" and uncle as "nephew." The injury was devastating to the patient, G.R., but it provided invaluable information to researchers investigating the mechanisms by which the brain comprehends written language. A properly functioning system for converting letters on a page to spoken sounds reveals little of its inner structure, but when that system is disrupted, the peculiar pattern of the resulting dysfunction may offer essential clues to the original, undamaged architecture. KW - brain KW - cogsci KW - computational KW - computational-modeling KW - dynamical-systems KW - dyslexia KW - modeling KW - networks KW - neuralnetwork KW - neuro KW - neuroimaging KW - neuropsych KW - neuroscience KW - nust KW - reading KW - review KW - simulation AU - Hinton, GE AU - Plaut, DC AU - Shallice, T PY - 1993/10// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8235551 ER -