{"id":31107,"date":"2011-05-22T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/discern-was-built-to-process-and-recall-simple\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:22:17","slug":"discern-was-built-to-process-and-recall-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/discern-was-built-to-process-and-recall-simple\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31107 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/discern-was-built-to-process-and-recall-simple\/attachment\/31109\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_llg3mgIEtO1qescwho1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>DISCERN was built to process and recall simple narratives. Through training, the system learns what words mean and how they work in sentences in a way that mimics activation patterns in the brain. With the original settings, DISCERN is able to digest a narrative, retain it, and reproduce the story in its &ldquo;own&rdquo; words. The system also identifies negative and positive aspects of the story to change the likelihood that it will remember a specific detail. In this way, DISCERN models the brain both as a semantic and emotional processor.<br \/>\nWhen the researchers at UT changed the rate at which DISCERN learned, they noticed drastically different results, After learning a third-person narrative about a mobster, DISCERN retold fragments of the story in the first person, adopting a wild, criminal autobiography. Mistaking who did what to whom, an error called &ldquo;agent-slotting,&rdquo; is common among people with schizophrenic symptoms of delusion, and among the human patients used in controls for the study.<br \/>\nWhen diagnosing and treating schizophrenics, doctors often look for disturbances in storytelling and semantics. Finding those same symptoms in DISCERN has strengthened a theory that hyper-learning causes schizophrenia. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/biomedical\/diagnostics\/researchers-create-a-schizophrenic-computer\">Researchers Create A Schizophrenic Computer &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISCERN was built to process and recall simple narratives. Through training, the system learns what words mean and how they work in sentences in a way that mimics activation patterns in the brain. With the original settings, DISCERN is able to digest a narrative, retain it, and reproduce the story in its &ldquo;own&rdquo; words. 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