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Action and Language Mechanisms in the Brain: Data, Models and Neuroinformatics

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We assess the challenges of studying action and language mechanisms in the brain, both singly and in relation to each other to provide a novel perspective on neuroinformatics, integrating the development of databases for encoding – separately or together – neurocomputational models and empirical data that serve systems and cognitive neuroscience.

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Acknowledgement, Discussion Groups and Workshop Participants

The present paper is based on discussions held on Wednesday July 27, as part of the Workshop on “Action, Language and Neuroinformatics” held on July 25–27, 2011, in Los Angeles under the aegis of the USC Brain Project of the University of Southern California, and organized by Michael A. Arbib. The Workshop was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0924674.

There were six discussion groups, three (1a,b,c) meeting in parallel in the morning and three (2a,b,c) in the afternoon. The participants of the Workshop were divided into three groups, one each on Action, Language, and Neuroinformatics. The discussion groups were then organized as follows. The name of the rapporteur for each session is marked in Bold. The present paper is based on the integration of their six reports.

1a. Half the Action group + half the Neuroinformatics group: assessing the model-data integration and neuroinformatics needs of the Action group: Bonaiuto, Oztop, Demiris, Vanduffel, Arbib, Marques, Bohland.

1b. Half the Neurolinguistics group + the other half of the Neuroinformatics group: assessing the model-data integration and neuroinformatics needs of the Neurolinguistics group: Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Small, MacWhinney, Miikkulainen, Nielsen, Fox, Barrès, Schuler.

1c. The other half of the Action group + the other half of the Neurolinguistics group: Defining shared modeling challenges and the development of a shared conceptual framework. Kemmerer, Aziz-Zadeh, Cartmill, Gasser, Grosvald, Wood, Kempen, Lee, Schilling.

2a. Action group: What are the key data and/or conceptual issues ripe for modeling; what are the key lines of modeling that hold most promise to address these data/issues? Oztop, Demiris, Vanduffel, Cartmill, Arbib, Aziz-Zadeh, Gasser, Schilling, Wood.

2b. Neurolinguistics group: What are the key data and/or conceptual issues ripe for modeling; what are the key lines of modeling that hold most promise to address these data/issues? MacWhinney, Kempen, Grosvald, Small, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Miikkulainen. Kemmerer, Lee, Barres

2c. Neuroinformatics group: What tools are ripe for sharing, or should be ripened? What are promising lines for federation? Nielsen, Marques, Bohland, Bonaiuto, Bota, Fox, Schuler.

Brief biosketches of the participants, access to selected papers, and abstracts of their talks may be found at the Workshop Website: http://uscbp.usc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/2011_Workshop.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Michael A. Arbib

  2. Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    James J. Bonaiuto

  3. Neurolinguistics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

  4. Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences and Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    David Kemmerer

  5. Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Brian MacWhinney

  6. Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Finn Årup Nielsen

  7. Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Erhan Oztop

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Appendix: A Tabulation of Present and Future Resources

Appendix: A Tabulation of Present and Future Resources

Table 1 Neuroinformatics resources
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Table 2 Other resources
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Table 3 A target set of new neuroinformatics resources
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Arbib, M.A., Bonaiuto, J.J., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. et al. Action and Language Mechanisms in the Brain: Data, Models and Neuroinformatics. Neuroinform 12, 209–225 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-013-9210-5

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