{"id":4636,"date":"2025-12-18T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:14:45","slug":"modelling-semantic-dementia-using-artificial-neural-networksl-cortical-degradation-and-prefrontal-modulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/modelling-semantic-dementia-using-artificial-neural-networksl-cortical-degradation-and-prefrontal-modulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling semantic dementia using artificial neural networksL cortical degradation and prefrontal modulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Abigail Behr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr D. Jarvis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>Prefrontal modulation helps maintain meaning and understanding even as cortical<br>areas that store knowledge deteriorate.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-2048x1448.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/535776_Abigail_Behr_Abby-Behr-Poster_1646_1156284638-600x424.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Abigail Behr, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr D. Jarvis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Prefrontal modulation helps maintain meaning and understanding even as corticalareas that store knowledge deteriorate. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}