PhD student models dynamics of language
Monday 14 December 2009
PhD student Nooraini Yusoff, with Dr André Grüning and Dr Antony Browne, have a paper on modeling the Stroop effect in language accepted for publication at the 2nd International Conference in Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN 2009).
Yusoff, N. Grüning, A. and Browne, A. (2009). Modelling the Stroop Effect: Dynamics in Inhibition of Automatic Stimuli Processing. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
"In this study, we simulate the dynamics of suppressing an automatic stimulus processing which interferes with a different non-automatic target task. The dynamics can be observed in terms of interference and facilitation effects that influence target response processing time. For this purpose, we use Hopfield neural network with varying attention modulation in a colour-word Stroop stimuli processing paradigm. With the biologically realistic features of the network, our model is able to model the Stroop effect in comparison to the human performance."