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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Dear Connectionists colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">I am writing to call your attention to an article that I just published Open Access which is relevant to many current themes in neural modeling:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#212121">Grossberg, S. (2023). How children learn to understand language meanings: A neural model of adult–child multimodal interactions in real-time.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Frontiers
in Psychology</i>, August 2, 2023. Section on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Cognitive Science</i>, Volume 14.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1216479" target="_blank" title="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1216479"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#0078D7">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1216479</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Here is its <b>Abstract</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">This article describes a biological neural network model that can be used to explain how children learn to understand language meanings about the perceptual and affective events that they consciously experience.
This kind of learning often occurs when a child interacts with an adult teacher to learn language meanings about events that they experience together. Multiple types of self-organizing brain processes are involved in learning language meanings, including processes
that control conscious visual perception, joint attention, object learning and conscious recognition, cognitive working memory, cognitive planning, emotion, cognitive-emotional interactions, volition, and goal-oriented actions. The article shows how all of
these brain processes interact to enable learning of language meanings to occur. The article also contrasts these human capabilities with AI models like ChatGPT. The current model is called the ChatSOME model, where SOME abbreviates Self-Organizing Meaning.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">These contributions build upon results that are described in my recently published Magnum Opus:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Resonant-Brain-Makes/dp/0190070552"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Resonant-Brain-Makes/dp/0190070552</span></a></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">that I wrote to be self-contained and non-technical in a conversational style for the general public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Stephen Grossberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Director, Center for Adaptive Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Emeritus Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">sites.bu.edu/steveg/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:steve@bu.edu"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">steve@bu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">https://sites.bu.edu/steveg/files/2021/08/Grossberg-CV-8-14-21.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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