I enjoyed Professor Greg
Appelbaum’s lecture regarding the semantics and networks of cognitive neuroscience
and their analyses. He gave some very interesting talks about how so many
different words, concepts, and mental processes are linked together. For
example, he talked about how vastly different words that appear only vaguely
linked in some way are actually constantly inter-connected in our minds.
Furthermore, his research seemed to indicate an intriguing fact:
emotion-related words and concepts seem to split off into their own network. These revelations, combined with new technology that is working on mapping our cognitive structures, are revolutionizing the scientific community's study of human thought and language.
My only criticism, thought,
is that Professor Appelbaum could have provided a little more introduction and
background to his subject. Cognitive semantics and networks can be somewhat
complex, and they tie very heavily into much deeper studies of the human brain
and other aspects of neuroscience.
Overall, though, I
appreciated the lecture. The research that the lectured explored contains more evidence of the
vast wonders we can uncover regarding ourselves and how the brain is absolutely critical
to understanding humanity.
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