Psychological theories of reading have been around for many years. With the advent of neural nets, we can at last start to test these theories since they are based on the workings of the brain. In this paper, I will show how a neural net has been used to test theories regarding how the meanings of a word are accessed. The results give a new angle to this area in that they suggest that meanings may be accessed in a way not expressed by any of the theories. This shows how neural nets can be used at a practical level to test psychological theories and how they can sometimes bring to light new possibilities.
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