The impact of synaptic depression following brain damage: a connectionist account of "access/refractory" and "degraded-store" semantic impairments

Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Stephen J Gotts, David C Plaut

Abstract

Neuropsychological studies of patients with acquired semantic impairments have yielded two distinct and contrasting patterns of performance in a spoken-word/picture-matching task (Warrington & Cipolotti, 1996). Patients labeled access/refractory are strongly influenced by presentation rate, semantic relatedness of distractors, and repetition, yet they seem relatively unaffected by lexical frequency. Degraded-store patients, on the other hand, are strongly affected by lexical frequency but are less affected by presentation rate, semantic relatedness, or repetition. Our account of these patterns of performance is based on the distinction between two different types of neurological damage: (1) damage to neuromodulatory systems that function to amplify neural signals while suppressing normal refractory-like effects and (2) damage to connections between groups of neurons that encode semantic information and are sensitive to frequency/familiarity. We present a connectionist model that learns to map spoken-word input to semantic representations and that incorporates a particular form of neural refractoriness referred to as synaptic depression, as well as a simple form of neuromodulation. We show that the model is capable of accounting...Continue Reading

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