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From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
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Subject: Re: brain, a parallel processor ?
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 15:45:22 EST
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"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