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Connectionism - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
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Connectionism - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Cognitive Science
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This is the third volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive
Science Series. It is based on a conference that was held in 1990,
which was sponsored by the Cognitive Science Program and
Linguistics Department of Simon Fraser University. Over the last
decade, there has emerged a paradigm of cognitive modeling that has
been hailed by many researchers as a radically new and promising
approach to cognitive science. This new paradigm has come to be
known by a number of names, including "connectionism", "neural
networks", and "parallel distributed processing", (or PDP). This
method of computation attempts to model the neural processes that
are thought to underlie cognitive functions in human beings. Unlike
the digital computation methods used by AI researchers,
connectionist models claim to approximate the kind of spontaneous,
creative and somewhat unpredicatable behavior of human agents.
However, over the last few years, a heated controversy has arisen
over the extent to which connectionist models are able to provide
successful explanations for higher cognitive processes. A central
theme of this book reviews the adequacy of recent attempts to
implement higher cognitive processes in connectionist networks.
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