?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+neural+blackboard+architecture+of+sentence+structure&rft.creator=van+der+Velde%2C+dr.+Frank&rft.creator=de+Kamps%2C+dr.+Marc&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Neural+Modelling&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=We+present+a+neural+architecture+for+sentence+representation.+Sentences+are+represented+in+terms+of+word+representations+as+constituents.+A+word+representation+consists+of+a+neural+assembly+distributed+over+the+brain.+Sentence+representation+does+not+result+from+associations+between+neural+word+assemblies.+Instead%2C+word+assemblies+are+embedded+in+a+neural+architecture%2C+in+which+the+structural+(thematic)+relations+between+words+can+be+represented.+Arbitrary+thematic+relations+between+arguments+and+verbs+can+be+represented.+Arguments+can+consist+of+nouns+and+phrases%2C+as+in+sentences+with+relative+clauses.+A+number+of+sentences+can+be+stored+simultaneously+in+this+architecture.+We+simulate+how+probe+questions+about+thematic+relations+can+be+answered.+We+discuss+how+differences+in+sentence+complexity%2C+such+as+the+difference+between+subject-extracted+versus+object-extracted+relative+clauses+and+the+difference+between+right-branching+versus+center-embedded+structures%2C+can+be+related+to+the+underlying+neural+dynamics+of+the+model.+Finally%2C+we+illustrate+how+memory+capacity+for+sentence+representation+can+be+related+to+the+nature+of+reverberating+neural+activity%2C+which+is+used+to+store+information+temporarily+in+this+architecture.+&rft.date=2003-06&rft.type=Departmental+Technical+Report&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3271%2F1%2Fneuralsentence.pdf&rft.identifier=++van+der+Velde%2C+dr.+Frank+and+de+Kamps%2C+dr.+Marc++(2003)+A+neural+blackboard+architecture+of+sentence+structure.++%5BDepartmental+Technical+Report%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3271%2F