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Re:Brainwaves Encode the Grammar of Human Language by dhairya on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:14PM (#18488388)
"A key finding of the new study is that these artificial neural networks, when fed example sentences, give off patterns of energy that mimic what the brain does when it processes a sentence."

I wish the article fleshed out more details about the research. It looks like they found a correlation between the output of a specific ANN that seems similar to observed neural oscillations in the brain. The causality claim in the article seems premature.

Also curious if the neural encoding of grammar is consistent across different languages. So many questions about the specifics, but cool research for sure.

Re:Brainwaves Encode the Grammar of Human Language by gumboshoes on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:54PM (#18488715)
The research the article is based on is linked at the bottom of the article: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Re:Brainwaves Encode the Grammar of Human Language by dhairya on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:33PM (#18489011)
Thanks for sharing that link! Totally missed it.