Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!gary From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: brain, a parallel processor ? Message-ID: <4694@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 15:45:22 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.4694 Posted: Thu Feb 2 15:45:22 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:42:10 EST References: <1941@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 10 "it's neurophysiology that's going to tell us ..." Not to mention psychology. Current work in lexical access shows that at least two meanings of a word (even of the wrong syntactic class for its place in the sentence) are accessed in parallel. Attentional processes, on the other hand, seem serial in nature, but I don't know the data here. (Lexical access is automatic, i.e., non-attentional by Posner's definition.) Look for papers by Swinney (1979) Seidenberg, Tanenhaus, Leiman, and Bienkowski, 1982. (I can't remember the journals at the moment - sorry.) gary cottrell