Mikko Määttä
PhD Student Computational Linguistics Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft Universität Osnabrück	PhD project I am doing my PhD at the Cognitive Science Institute of the University of Osnabrück in Germany under the supervision of Prof. Peter Bosch. My PhD thesis is concerned with the question of whether the rules postulated in linguistics have reality on the level of the mind and the brain. I approach this question from the perspective of the symbol manipulation/connectionism debate. The thesis will be a multi-disciplinary work incorporating theoretical argumentation and neural network modeling. I'm in my third year of PhD studies. Publications Brattico, P., & Määttä, M. (2009): Natural Language Parsing: New Perspectives from Contemporary Biolinguistics. In S. Niiranen, J. Yli-Hietanen and A. Lugmayr (Eds.), Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration (pp. 158–175). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Conference talks 3.10.2010: Talk about my PhD project at the PhD colloquium of KogWis 2010 – The 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science Contact Mikko Määttä IKW Universitaet Osnabrueck Albrechstrasse 28, 49076 Osnabrück Room: 31/372 Tel: +49-541 969 3901, Fax: +49-541 969 3374 Email: