TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerth, Sabrina
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
T1  - Unifying syntactic theory and sentence processing difficulty through a connectionist minimalist parser
N2  - Syntactic theory provides a rich array of representational assumptions about linguistic knowledge and processes. Such detailed and independently motivated constraints on grammatical knowledge ought to play a role in sentence comprehension. However most grammar-based explanations of processing difficulty in the literature have attempted to use grammatical representations and processes per se to explain processing difficulty. They did not take into account that the description of higher cognition in mind and brain encompasses two levels: on the one hand, at the macrolevel, symbolic computation is performed, and on the other hand, at the microlevel, computation is achieved through processes within a dynamical system. One critical question is therefore how linguistic theory and dynamical systems can be unified to provide an explanation for processing effects. Here, we present such a unification for a particular account to syntactic theory: namely a parser for Stabler's Minimalist Grammars, in the framework of Smolensky's Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic architectures. In simulations we demonstrate that the connectionist minimalist parser produces predictions which mirror global empirical findings from psycholinguistic research.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1871-4099
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-009-9093-1
SN  - 1871-4080
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Troll, Günter
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
T1  - Zipfs law is not a consequence of the central limit theorem
Y1  - 1998
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
T1  - Contextual emergence of intentionality
JF  - Journal of consciousness studies : controversies in science & the humanities ; an international multi-disciplinary journal
N2  - By means of an intriguing physical example, magnetic surface swimmers, that can be described in terms of Dennett's intentional stance, I reconstruct a hierarchy of necessary and sufficient conditions for the applicability of the intentional strategy. It turns out that the different levels of the intentional hierarchy are contextually emergent from their respective subjacent levels by imposing stability constraints upon them. At the lowest level of the hierarchy, phenomenal physical laws emerge for the coarse-grained description of open, nonlinear, and dissipative non-equilibrium systems in critical states. One level higher, dynamic patterns, such as, for example, magnetic surface swimmers, are contextually emergent as they are invariant under certain symmetry operations. Again one level up, these patterns behave apparently rationally by selecting optimal pathways for the dissipation of energy that is delivered by external gradients. This is in accordance with the restated Second Law of thermodynamics as a stability criterion. At the highest level, true believers are intentional systems that are stable under exchanging their observation conditions.
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 1355-8250
VL  - 21
IS  - 5-6
SP  - 75
EP  - 96
PB  - Imprint Academic
CY  - Exeter
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
A1  - Saddy, Douglas
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Kurths, Jürgen
T1  - Symbolic dynamics of event-related brain potentials
Y1  - 2000
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
T1  - Symbolische Dynamik ereigniskorrelierter Gehirnpotentiale in der Sprachverarbeitung
Y1  - 2000
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Saddy, Douglas
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
T1  - Cylinder Entropies and Case resolution
Y1  - 1999
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Saddy, Douglas
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
T1  - Cortical Dynamics of Language Processes
Y1  - 1999
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Saddy, Douglas
A1  - Beim Graben, Peter
A1  - Schlesewsky, Matthias
T1  - Measuring entropy during language processing
Y1  - 1999
ER  -