Connectionist Approaches To Clinical Problems in Speech and Language - Therapeutic and Scientific Applications (Paperback)

Connectionist accounts of language acquisition, processing, and dissolution proliferate despite attacks from some linguists, cognitive scientists, and engineers. Although the networks of exquisitely interconnected perceptrons postulated by PDP theorists may not be anatomically homologous with actual brain anatomy, a growing body of research suggests that the posited network functions can support many human behaviors. This volume brings together contributors with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to explore, for the first time, the "clinical implications" of whole-language connectionist models. Demonstrating that these models are powerful and have explained many phenomena of language acquisition, language therapy, and speech processing, especially at the engineering level, they focus specifically on applications of connectionist theory to delayed language, aphasia, phonological acquisition, and speech perception. Connectionist models, they conclude, offer a new interpretive framework for the discussion of information processing in humans and other animals that will be of great utility to all those who study language and seek to intervene in language disorders.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	2002
Editors:	Raymond G. Daniloff
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	326
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-2214-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Gross pathology Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Speech & language disorders & therapy Promotions
LSN:	0-8058-2214-3
Barcode:	9780805822144

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