Download or read book Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory written by Mark A. Gluck and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, engineers, and neuroscientists, this book provides an accessible overview of how computational network models are being used to model neurobiological phenomena. Each chapter presents a representative example of how biological data and network models interact with the authors' research. The biological phenomena cover network- or circuit-level phenomena in humans and other higher-order vertebrates.

Download or read book Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory written by Mark A. Gluck and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, engineers, and neuroscientists, this book provides an accessible overview of how computational network models are being used to model neurobiological phenomena. Each chapter presents a representative example of how biological data and network models interact with the authors' research. The biological phenomena cover network- or circuit-level phenomena in humans and other higher-order vertebrates.

Download or read book Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory written by Mark A. Gluck and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, engineers, and neuroscientists, this book provides an accessible overview of how computational network models are being used to model neurobiological phenomena. Each chapter presents a representative example of how biological data and network models interact with the authors' research. The biological phenomena cover network- or circuit-level phenomena in humans and other higher-order vertebrates.

Download or read book Rethinking Innateness written by Jeffrey L. Elman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way. One of the key contributions of Rethinking Innateness is a taxonomy of ways in which a behavior can be innate. These include constraints at the level of representation, architecture, and timing; typically, behaviors arise through the interaction of constraints at several of these levels.The ideas are explored through dynamic models inspired by a new kind of "developmental connectionism," a marriage of connectionist models and developmental neurobiology, forming a new theoretical framework for the study of behavioral development. While relying heavily on the conceptual and computational tools provided by connectionism, Rethinking Innateness also identifies ways in which these tools need to be enriched by closer attention to biology.

Download or read book Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology written by George Houghton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology including: memory and learning, language (written and spoken), cognitive development, cognitive control, attention and action. The chapters discuss neural network models in a clear and accessible style, with an emphasis on the relationship between the models and relevant experimental data drawn from experimental psychology, neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. These lucid high-level contributions will serve as introductory articles for postgraduates and researchers whilst being of great use to undergraduates with an interest in the area of connectionist modelling.

Download or read book Macroneural Theories in Cognitive Neuroscience written by William R. Uttal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, William R. Uttal continues his analysis and critique of theories of mind. This book considers theories that are based on macroneural responses (such as those obtained from fMRI) that represent the averaged or cumulative responses of many neurons. The analysis is carried out with special emphasis on the logical and conceptual difficulties in developing a theory but with special attention to some of the current attempts to go from these cumulative responses to explanations of the grand question of how the mind is generated by the brain. While acknowledging the importance of these macroneural techniques in the study of the anatomy and physiology of the brain, Uttal concludes that this macroneural approach is not likely to produce a valid neural theory of cognition because the critical information—the states of the individual neurons—involved in brain activity becoming mental activity is actually lost in the process of summation. Controversial topics are considered in detail including discussions of empirical, logical, and technological barriers to theory building in cognitive neuroscience.

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology written by Ron Sun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge reference source for the interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling.

Download or read book Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior written by Eddy J. Davelaar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Eddy J. Davelaar -- An ecology-based approach to perceptual modelling / E.L. Byrne, D.P.A Corney and R.B. Lotto -- Early development of visual abilities / Alessio Plebe -- A dynamical neural simulation of feature-based attention and binding in a recurrent model of the ventral stream / D.G. Harrison and M. De Kamps -- Model selection for eye movements : assessing the role of attentional cues in infant learning / Daniel Yurovsky [und weitere] -- The importance of low spatial frequencies for categorization of emotional facial expressions / L. Lopez [und weitere] -- Modeling speech perception with restricted Boltzmann machines / Michael Klein, Louis ten Bosch and Lou Boves -- Early language as multimodal learning / Nadja Althaus and Denis Mareschal -- From Motherese to one-word and two-word child language : a multimodal temporal connectionist model / Abel Nyamapfene -- Learning the visual word code / T. Hannagan and J. Grainger -- What are the functional units in reading? Evidence for statistical variation influencing word processing / Alastair C. Smith and Padraic Monaghan -- Testing computational accounts of response congruency in lexical decision / Sebastian Loth and Colin J. Davis -- Sentence comprehension as mental simulation : an information-theoretic analysis and a connectionist model / Stefan L. Frank -- Modelling free recall - a combined activation-buffer and distributed-context model / Anat Elhalal and Marius Usher -- Inference, ontologies and the pump of thought / Andrzej Wichert -- Modelling correlations in "response inhibition" Richard P. Cooper and Eddy J. Davelaar -- A first approach to an artificial networked cognitive control system based on the shared circuits model of sociocognitive capacities / A. Sanchez Boza and R. Haber Guerra -- Digital typology modelling of cognitive abilities / Agnes Garletti -- Using enriched semantic representations in predictions of human brain activity / Joseph P. Levy and John A. Bullinaria -- Variability in the severity of developmental disorders : a neurocomputational account of developmental regression in autism / Michael SC Thomas, Victoria CP Knowland and Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- How do we use computational models of cognitive processes? / T. Stafford -- Some issues in computational modelling; Occam's razor and Hegel' hair gel / Richard Shillcock [und weitere] -- How is hair gel quantified? / Mark A. Pitt and Jay I. Myung -- What do humanoid robots offer to experimental psychology? / Jochen J. Steil

Download or read book Toward a Unified Theory of Development written by John P. Spencer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource defines and refines two major theoretical approaches within developmental science that address the central issues of development-connectionism and dynamical systems theory.

Download or read book Connectionism and Psychology written by Philip T. Quinlan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of neural network research has led to a major reappraisal of many fundamental assumptions in cognitive and perceptual psychology. This text—aimed at the advanced undergraduate and beginning postgraduate student—is an in-depth guide to those aspects of neural network research that are of direct relevance to human information processing. Examples of new connectionist models of learning, vision, language and thought are described in detail. Both neurological and psychological considerations are used in assessing its theoretical contributions. The status of the basic predicates like exclusive-OR is examined, the limitations of perceptrons are explained and properties of multi-layer networks are described in terms of many examples of psychological processes. The history of neural networks is discussed from a psychological perspective which examines why certain issues have become important. The book ends with a general critique of the new connectionist approach. It is clear that new connectionism work provides a distinctive framework for thinking about central questions in cognition and perception. This new textbook provides a clear and useful introduction to its theories and applications.

Download or read book Connectionist Models of Development written by Philip T. Quinlan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connectionist Models of Development is an edited collection of essays on the current work concerning connectionist or neural network models of human development. The brain comprises millions of nerve cells that share myriad connections, and this book looks at how human development in these systems is typically characterised as adaptive changes to the strengths of these connections. The traditional accounts of connectionist learning, based on adaptive changes to weighted connections, are explored alongside the dynamic accounts in which networks generate their own structures as learning proceeds. Unlike most connectionist accounts of psychological processes which deal with the fully-mature system, this text brings to the fore a discussion of developmental processes. To investigate human cognitive and perceptual development, connectionist models of learning and representation are adopted alongside various aspects of language and knowledge acquisition. There are sections on artificial intelligence and how computer programs have been designed to mimic the development processes, as well as chapters which describe what is currently known about how real brains develop. This book is a much-needed addition to the existing literature on connectionist development as it includes up-to-date examples of research on current controversies in the field as well as new features such as genetic connectionism and biological theories of the brain. It will be invaluable to academic researchers, post-graduates and undergraduates in developmental psychology and those researching connectionist/neural networks as well as those in related fields such as psycholinguistics.

Download or read book Connectionism and the Mind written by William Bechtel and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-01-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connectionism and the Mind provides a clear and balanced introduction to connectionist networks and explores theoretical and philosophical implications. Much of this discussion from the first edition has been updated, and three new chapters have been added on the relation of connectionism to recent work on dynamical systems theory, artificial life, and cognitive neuroscience. Read two of the sample chapters on line: Connectionism and the Dynamical Approach to Cognition: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/bechtel.pdf Networks, Robots, and Artificial Life: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/bechtel2.pdf

Download or read book Connectionism and the Mind written by William Bechtel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Neural Networks and Psychopathology written by Dan J. Stein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on connectionist models is one of the most exciting areas in cognitive science, and neural network models of psychopathology have immediate theoretical and empirical appeal. The contributors to this study review theoretical, historical and clinical issues, including the contribution of neural network models to diagnosis, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Models are presented for a range of disorders, including schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dissociative phenomena, autism and Alzheimer's disease. This book will appeal to a broad audience. On the one hand, it will be read with interest by psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians and researchers in psychopathology. On the other, it will appeal to those working in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and particularly those interested in neural network or connectionist models.

Download or read book Connectionist Models Of Behaviour And Cognition Ii Proceedings Of The 11th Neural Computation And Psychology Workshop written by Julien Mayor and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neural computational approach to cognitive and psychological processes is relatively new. However, Neural Computation and Psychology Workshops (NCPW), first held 16 years ago, lie at the heart of this fast-moving discipline, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature — bringing together researchers from different disciplines such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, neurobiology, philosophy and psychology to discuss their work on models of cognitive processes.Once again, the Eleventh Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW11), held in 2008 at the University of Oxford (England), reflects the interdisciplinary nature and wide range of backgrounds of this field. This volume is a collection of peer-reviewed contributions of most of the papers presented at NCPW11 by researchers from four continents and 15 countries.

Download or read book Connectionism and Second Language Acquisition written by Yasuhiro Shirai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest title in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series presents a comprehensive review of connectionist research in second language acquisition (SLA). Second language researchers and the cognitive science community will find accessible discussions of the relevance of connectionist research to SLA. This important volume is key reading for any student or researcher interested in how second language acquisition can be better understood from a connectionist perspective.

Download or read book Connectionist Models of Memory and Language PLE Memory written by Joseph P. Levy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connectionist modelling and neural network applications had become a major sub-field of cognitive science by the mid-1990s. In this ground-breaking book, originally published in 1995, leading connectionists shed light on current approaches to memory and language modelling at the time. The book is divided into four sections: Memory; Reading; Computation and statistics; Speech and audition. Each section is introduced and set in context by the editors, allowing a wide range of language and memory issues to be addressed in one volume. This authoritative advanced level book will still be of interest for all engaged in connectionist research and the related areas of cognitive science concerned with language and memory.