Commentary on Neuroemergentism: A framework for studying cognition and the brain. The neurocomputations of neuroemergentism: Long-term memory + reinforcement learning = language?

Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Andrea StoccoAbstractHernandez and colleagues proposed a new framework, neuroemergentism, according to which complex functions (such as language) may originate from the interactions of existing neural mechanisms that have evolved for potentially different reasons, and whose recycling within a new network results in apparent functional specialization. Here, I will consider neuroemergentism from a computational perspective. In particular, I will examine how this approach could provide a way to make sense of linguistic abilities within two accepted, general-purpose neurocomputational frameworks: rational (Bayesian) retrieval of information from long-term memory, and reinforcement learning. These two framew...

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