title: Capacity of making choices in the brain and its quantitative evaluation: an application to comprehension of incomplete sentences and semantic commitments.
abstract: The natural language processor in the brain generates information when it disambiguates words while reading a text in which information generation refers to making semantic commitments. Contextual facilitation of disambiguation of words appearing in the perturbed text that is derived from the unperturbed and natural one by deleting words randomly, lets the language processor revise the previous semantic commitments continuously. As the frequency of revising the previous semantic commitments increases, the amount of information generated by the language processor also increases. Revising previous semantic commitments in a continuous fashion is the functional property intrinsic to the language processor in the brain.
authors.affiliation: Department of BioEngineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsuno
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics