Localist Connectionist Approaches To Human Cognition (Scientific Psychology Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805825568 ISBN 13: 9780805825565

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1998

Synopsis

This volume provides an overview of a relatively neglected branch of connectionism known as localist connectionism. The singling out of localist connectionism is motivated by the fact that some critical modeling strategies have been more readily applied in the development and testing of localist as opposed to distributed connectionist models (models using distributed hidden-unit representations and trained with a particular learning algorithm, typically back-propagation). One major theme emerging from this book is that localist connectionism currently provides an interesting means of evolving from verbal-boxological models of human cognition to computer-implemented algorithmic models. The other central messages conveyed are that the highly delicate issue of model testing, evaluation, and selection must be taken seriously, and that model-builders of the localist connectionist family have already shown exemplary steps in this direction.

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Arthur Jacobs, Jonathan Grainger, Arthur M. Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805825568
• ISBN 13: 9780805825565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Grainger Jonathan, Jacobs Arthur M., Jacobs Arthur