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The Kavli Prize

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MIT World » : The Computational Nature of Language Learning

Tags: decisionsystem, language, psychology, science, mit on 2008-06-02 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Niyogi believes that an “evolutionary trajectory” links how acquisition happens at an individual level, and how variation in language springs up from one generation to the next. But rather than inheriting the grammar of your parents, you have to learn it. Examining language variation over time as if it were genetic variation, “you get a different mathematical structure…and probabilities start playing an important role.” Small differences “can have very subtle consequences giving rise to bifurcation in nonlinear dynamics of evolution.” For instance, 1000 years ago, the English were speaking a language that’s unrecognizable to us today. How has it come to be that “we have moved so far from that point through learning which is mimicking the previous generation?”
Niyogi explains that within a single population two varying languages may be in competition (say, a German and an English-type grammar). While a majority may speak the dominant variant, some children will likely be exposed to a mixture of the two. There’s a “drift” in language use, “and suddenly, what was stable becomes unstable.”
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- Past posts in my blog also dealt with the evolution of language. I am wondering how this plays out in larger organizational and social systems and the interaction of different systems ie Americans in Iraq or other situations. Especially with the web accelerating communications even if it is not directly connected to everybody within a system.
  
  posted by brianddrpm on 2008-02-25 03:33:12

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MIT World » : Machine Learning of Language from Distributional Evidence

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Meeting the Entropy Challenge

Tags: entropy, MIT, 2ndLaw, science, thermodynamics on 2008-04-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Mind Science Foundation

Tags: brain, mind, research, science, consciousness on 2008-04-14 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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"Tracing the Second Law", Feature Article, July 2007

Tags: science, 2ndLaw, entropy on 2008-04-06 -All Annotations (3) -About

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MIT : Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Neuroethics Publications

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MIT World » : Human Simulations of Language Learning

Tags: decisionsystem, language, mit, psychology, science, video on 2008-02-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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My MBTI Personality Type - MBTI Basics

Tags: psychology, science on 2008-02-18 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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BrianDRPM Paradigm Pathways Science

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Powell's Books - The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela H. Smith

Tags: brain, psychology, science on 2008-01-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Misreading the mind - Los Angeles Times

Tags: brain, psychology, science on 2008-01-21 -All Annotations (2) -About

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The success of modern neuroscience represents the triumph of a method: reductionism. The premise of reductionism is that the best way to solve a complex problem -- and the brain is the most complicated object in the known universe -- is to study its most basic parts. The mind, in other words, is just a particular trick of matter, reducible to the callous laws of physics.
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- Thumbnail book review: Proust was a Neuroscientist Category: Opinion
  
  Posted on: December 21, 2007 11:47 AM, by Greta Munger
  
  
  
  I just finished reading Jonah Lehrer's book Proust was a Neuroscientist.
  
  Quick review: good book, very fun read, and I'm happy to recommend it to almost everyone. I just have one small quibble. For the quibble to make any sense, you need to know something about
  my teaching. Students in all my psychology classes have to write a few
  paragraphs to earn "culture points." They must consider how psychology
  connects to art, though the social context surrounding the event is
  also fair game for analysis. So my students attend a concert, visit a
  museum, or go to a play or dance performance and then write a paragraph
  connecting some aspect of psychology to their experience. I get a lot
  of discussion of the Gestalt grouping principles with paintings, but
  every semester several students make more interesting connections:
  noticing how a theatrical production manipulated their attention using
  a sudden movement, or positive reinforcement at work between live
  performers and their audience, or discussing how a particular aspect of
  memory may explain a very surprising emotional reaction to a sculpture.
  
  posted by brianddrpm on 2008-01-21 23:01:59

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Pathways to New Paradigms: Predicting New Paradigm Pathways In Science

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Pathways to New Paradigms: Science Score Card

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Class Home Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University

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