[topicmapmail] Do our brains work like Topic Maps ?

[Patrick Durusau]

Gabriel,

Too bad NewScientist doesn't "work like" a useful source of information.

 All I could find was a tease for the main article that appears to 
require a subscription for viewing.

Not having seen the article, I suspect the better statement might be 
that topic map mimic how our brains work in some undefined way. Just as 
"logic" is a limited version of "reasoning." The only problem being that 
we don't know what parts of reasoning have been left out. ;-)

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Gabriel Hopmans wrote:
> Hi,
> See this news below. I would say that the researchers can start working on answering this question (see subject field) as well.
> But then maybe also refine the question : the number of statements that are linked to words. (instead of the number of sites)
>
> Gabriel
>
>
>  ====================== 
>  Do our brains work like Google? 
>  ====================== 
>  Google's patented and powerful search algorithm, PageRank, may mimic the 
>  way the human brain retrieves information.  
>   
>  Our memory for words can be modelled as a network in which each point 
>  represents a different word, with each linked to words that relate to 
>  it. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, wondered 
>  whether the ease with which the brain retrieves words is similar to the 
>  way that websites are ranked by PageRank: by the number of sites that 
>  link to them.  
>   
>  It seems it might. In tests against other word-retrieval algorithms, 
>  PageRank most clearly matched the human model. The results suggest human 
>  memory studies could be improved by examining the tricks that search 
>  engines employ, and vice versa, the researchers say.  
>
>  New Scientist / Psychological Science - December 10, 2007 
>  http://www.merit.unu.edu/i&tweekly/ref.php?nid=3195 
>
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Patrick Durusau
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