@article {10.3844/amjnsp.2014.1.9,
article_type = {journal},
title = {THE NAME PATHWAY, AN ELEMENTARY COGNITIVE MODEL OF NAMES AS SENSORY REPRESENTATIONS},
author = {Dass, S. Balachandra},
volume = {5},
year = {2014},
month = {Apr},
pages = {1-9},
doi = {10.3844/amjnsp.2014.1.9},
url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/amjnsp.2014.1.9},
abstract = {Names function as sensory representations, but the relationship between names and sensory stimuli/responses remains unclear. This study proposes the existence of a class of stimulus-response pathways, the name pathway, where a name is a reproducible and communicable symbol and the name pathway is one where the same name is both the stimulus and the response. Once a stimulus-response &#34name&#34 pathway is formed as a result of reinforcement-based learning and in concert with the formation of the associated stimulus-response &#34sensory&#34 pathway for a named object, act or process, Hebbian cross-pathway connectivity between the sensory and name pathways allows each pathway’s stimulus to activate the other’s response. The model proposes that every higher-order cognitive function exists only because it was named and that each such function may be defined mechanistically to be the outcome of the &#34recognition,&#34 &#34interpretation,&#34 and &#34retrieval&#34 of sensory experiences from networks of names for that function.},
journal = {Neuroscience International},
publisher = {Science Publications}
}