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catalog abstract "This text provides an introduction to connectionist networks and explores their theoretical and philosophical implications. Two new chapters have been added in this edition on the relation of connectionism to recent work on artificial life and dynamical models of cognition.".
catalog contributor b12363395.
catalog contributor b12363396.
catalog created "c2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "c2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
catalog description "1. Networks versus Symbol Systems: Two Approaches to Modeling Cognition -- 1.1. A Revolution in the Making? -- 1.2. Forerunners of Connectionism: Pandemonium and Perceptrons -- 1.3. The Allure of Symbol Manipulation -- 1.4. The Decline and Re-emergence of Network Models -- 1.5. New Alliances and Unfinished Business -- 2. Connectionist Architectures -- 2.1. The Flavor of Connectionist Processing: A Simulation of Memory Retrieval -- 2.2. The Design Features of a Connectionist Architecture -- 2.3. The Allure of the Connectionist Approach -- 2.4. Challenges Facing Connectionist Networks -- 3. Learning -- 3.1. Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to Learning -- 3.2. Connectionist Models of Learning -- 3.3. Some Issues Regarding Learning -- 4. Pattern Recognition and Cognition -- 4.1. Networks as Pattern Recognition Devices -- 4.2. Extending Pattern Recognition to Higher Cognition -- 4.3. Logical Inference as Pattern Recognition -- 4.4. Beyond Pattern Recognition -- ".
catalog description "5. Are Rules Required to Process Representations? -- 5.1. Is Language Use Governed by Rules? -- 5.2. Rumelhart and McClelland's Model of Past-tense Acquisition -- 5.3. Pinker and Prince's Arguments for Rules -- 5.4. Accounting for the U-shaped Learning Function -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 6. Are Syntactically Structured Representations Needed? -- 6.1. Fodor and Pylyshyn's Critique: The Need for Symbolic Representations with Constituent Structure -- 6.2. First Connectionist Response: Explicitly Implementing Rules and Representations -- 6.3. Second Connectionist Response: Implementing Functionally Compositional Representations -- 6.4. Third Connectionist Response: Employing Procedural Knowledge with External Symbols -- 6.5. Using External Symbols to Provide Exact Symbol Processing -- 6.6. Clarifying the Standard: Systematicity and Degree of Generalizability -- 6.7. Conclusion -- 7. Simulating Higher Cognition: A Modular Architecture for Processing Scripts -- 7.1. Overview of Scripts -- ".
catalog description "7.2. Overview of Miikkulainen's DISCERN System -- 7.3. Modular Connectionist Architectures -- 7.4. FGREP: An Architecture that Allows the System to Devise Its Own Representations -- 7.5. A Self-organizing Lexicon Using Kohonen Feature Maps -- 7.6. Encoding and Decoding Stories as Scripts -- 7.7. A Connectionist Episodic Memory -- 7.8. Performance: Paraphrasing Stories and Answering Questions -- 7.9. Evaluating DISCERN -- 7.10. Paths Beyond the First Decade of Connectionism -- 8. Connectionism and the Dynamical Approach to Cognition -- 8.1. Are We on the Road to a Dynamical Revolution? -- 8.2. Basic Concepts of DST: The Geometry of Change -- 8.3. Using Dynamical Systems Tools to Analyze Networks -- 8.4. Putting Chaos to Work in Networks -- 8.5. Is Dynamicism a Competitor to Connectionism? -- 8.6. Is Dynamicism Complementary to Connectionism? -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 9. Networks, Robots, and Artificial Life -- 9.1. Robots and the Genetic Algorithm -- ".
catalog description "9.2. Cellular Automata and the Synthetic Strategy -- 9.3. Evolution and Learning in Food-seekers -- 9.4. Evolution and Development in Khepera -- 9.5. The Computational Neuroethology of Robots -- 9.6. When Philosophers Encounter Robots -- 9.7. Conclusion -- 10. Connectionism and the Brain -- 10.1. Connectionism Meets Cognitive Neuroscience -- 10.2. Four Connectionist Models of Brain Processes -- 10.3. The Neural Implausibility of Many Connectionist Models -- 10.4. Whither Connectionism?".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-383) and index.".
catalog description "This text provides an introduction to connectionist networks and explores their theoretical and philosophical implications. Two new chapters have been added in this edition on the relation of connectionism to recent work on artificial life and dynamical models of cognition.".
catalog extent "xvi, 406 p. :".
catalog identifier "0631207120".
catalog identifier "0631207139 (pbk.)".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "c2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Malden, Mass. : Blackwell,".
catalog subject "Computer networks.".
catalog subject "Parallel processing (Electronic computers)".
catalog subject "QA76.5 .B365 2002".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Networks versus Symbol Systems: Two Approaches to Modeling Cognition -- 1.1. A Revolution in the Making? -- 1.2. Forerunners of Connectionism: Pandemonium and Perceptrons -- 1.3. The Allure of Symbol Manipulation -- 1.4. The Decline and Re-emergence of Network Models -- 1.5. New Alliances and Unfinished Business -- 2. Connectionist Architectures -- 2.1. The Flavor of Connectionist Processing: A Simulation of Memory Retrieval -- 2.2. The Design Features of a Connectionist Architecture -- 2.3. The Allure of the Connectionist Approach -- 2.4. Challenges Facing Connectionist Networks -- 3. Learning -- 3.1. Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to Learning -- 3.2. Connectionist Models of Learning -- 3.3. Some Issues Regarding Learning -- 4. Pattern Recognition and Cognition -- 4.1. Networks as Pattern Recognition Devices -- 4.2. Extending Pattern Recognition to Higher Cognition -- 4.3. Logical Inference as Pattern Recognition -- 4.4. Beyond Pattern Recognition -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "5. Are Rules Required to Process Representations? -- 5.1. Is Language Use Governed by Rules? -- 5.2. Rumelhart and McClelland's Model of Past-tense Acquisition -- 5.3. Pinker and Prince's Arguments for Rules -- 5.4. Accounting for the U-shaped Learning Function -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 6. Are Syntactically Structured Representations Needed? -- 6.1. Fodor and Pylyshyn's Critique: The Need for Symbolic Representations with Constituent Structure -- 6.2. First Connectionist Response: Explicitly Implementing Rules and Representations -- 6.3. Second Connectionist Response: Implementing Functionally Compositional Representations -- 6.4. Third Connectionist Response: Employing Procedural Knowledge with External Symbols -- 6.5. Using External Symbols to Provide Exact Symbol Processing -- 6.6. Clarifying the Standard: Systematicity and Degree of Generalizability -- 6.7. Conclusion -- 7. Simulating Higher Cognition: A Modular Architecture for Processing Scripts -- 7.1. Overview of Scripts -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "7.2. Overview of Miikkulainen's DISCERN System -- 7.3. Modular Connectionist Architectures -- 7.4. FGREP: An Architecture that Allows the System to Devise Its Own Representations -- 7.5. A Self-organizing Lexicon Using Kohonen Feature Maps -- 7.6. Encoding and Decoding Stories as Scripts -- 7.7. A Connectionist Episodic Memory -- 7.8. Performance: Paraphrasing Stories and Answering Questions -- 7.9. Evaluating DISCERN -- 7.10. Paths Beyond the First Decade of Connectionism -- 8. Connectionism and the Dynamical Approach to Cognition -- 8.1. Are We on the Road to a Dynamical Revolution? -- 8.2. Basic Concepts of DST: The Geometry of Change -- 8.3. Using Dynamical Systems Tools to Analyze Networks -- 8.4. Putting Chaos to Work in Networks -- 8.5. Is Dynamicism a Competitor to Connectionism? -- 8.6. Is Dynamicism Complementary to Connectionism? -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 9. Networks, Robots, and Artificial Life -- 9.1. Robots and the Genetic Algorithm -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "9.2. Cellular Automata and the Synthetic Strategy -- 9.3. Evolution and Learning in Food-seekers -- 9.4. Evolution and Development in Khepera -- 9.5. The Computational Neuroethology of Robots -- 9.6. When Philosophers Encounter Robots -- 9.7. Conclusion -- 10. Connectionism and the Brain -- 10.1. Connectionism Meets Cognitive Neuroscience -- 10.2. Four Connectionist Models of Brain Processes -- 10.3. The Neural Implausibility of Many Connectionist Models -- 10.4. Whither Connectionism?".
catalog title "Connectionism and the mind : parallel processing, dynamics, and evolution in networks / William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen.".
catalog type "text".