- Tytuł:
- Coalescing stochastic processes in retrival from semantic memory
- Autorzy:
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Queau, Pierre-Yves
Woyczyński, Wojbor A.
Lerner, Alan J. - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/747962.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015
- Wydawca:
- Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne
- Tematy:
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Coalescent stochastic process
Kingman coalescent
Category Fluency Test
semantic memory
cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's disease
Levy process
fractional Poisson process
koalescencyjne procesy stochastyczne
koalescencja Kingmana
Test Biegłości Kategorycznej
pamięć semantyczna
zaburzenia poznawcze
choroba Alzheimera
proces L\'evy'ego
ułamkowy proces Poissona - Opis:
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Praca proponuje model procesów koalescencyjnych w celu wyjaśnienia mechnizmów odsku pojęć i nazw z pamięci semantycznej. Model jest pretestowany używając dobrze znanego eksperymentalnego Testu Biegłości Kategorycznej, który jest standartowym narzędziem neurologów badających pacjentów z objawami demencji. Możliwości modelowania opartego na procesach L´evy’ego i ułamkowych procesach Poissona są rownież zbadane.
Semantic memory retrieval is one of the most fundamental cognitive functions in humans. It is not fully understood and researchers from various fields of science struggle to find a model that would correlate well with experimental results and help understanding the complex background processes involved. To study such a phenomenon we need a relevant experimental protocol which can isolate the basic cognitive functions of interest from other perturbations. A variety of existing medical tests can provide such information, and the one we analyze is the Category Fluency Test (CFT). It was originally designed to measure frontal brain lobe damages in injured patients, and it tests directly the semantic memory retrieval, which is affected in cases of injury but can be also influenced by dementia, Alzheimer syndrome, or just aging. This paper introduces a new paradigm in analysis of the temporal structure of CFT responses by utilizing coalescent stochastic process model. We believe that this particular model is relevant to how this cognitive function operates and can lead to a better understanding of the background processes. The method turns out to be better at separating the two cognitively different groups studied here than the Weibull model from our previous paper Meyer et al.(2012), and could potentially be used for early diagnostics of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Two other models, one based on the concept of Levy processes, and one related to the fractional Poisson model, are also explored. - Źródło:
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Mathematica Applicanda; 2015, 43, 2
1730-2668
2299-4009 - Pojawia się w:
- Mathematica Applicanda
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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