Neuroscience And Connectionist Theory

Author : Mark A. Gluck,David E. Rumelhart
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780805805048

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Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory by Mark A. Gluck,David E. Rumelhart Pdf

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.

Author : Mark A. Gluck,David E. Rumelhart
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134751662

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Neuroscience and Connectionist Theory by Mark A. Gluck,David E. Rumelhart Pdf

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.

Author : George Houghton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135431143

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Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology by George Houghton Pdf

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.

Author : Ekrem Dere,Alexander Easton,Lynn Nadel,Joseph P Huston
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780080932361

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Handbook of Episodic Memory by Ekrem Dere,Alexander Easton,Lynn Nadel,Joseph P Huston Pdf

Episodic memory is the name of the kind of memory that records personal experiences instead of the mere remembering of impersonal facts and rules. This type of memory is extremely sensitive to ageing and disease so an understanding of the mechanisms of episodic memory might lead to the development of therapies suited to improve memory in some patient populations. Episodic memory is unique in that it includes an aspect of self-awareness and helps us to remember who we are in terms of what we did and what we have been passed through and what we should do in the future. This book brings together a renowned team of contributors from the fields of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and behavioural and molecular neuroscience. It provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of recent developments in understanding human episodic memory and animal episodic-like memory in terms of concepts, methods, mechanisms, neurobiology and pathology. The work presented within this book will have a profound effect on the direction that future research in this topic will take. The first and most current comprehensive handbook on what we know about episodic memory, the memory of events, time, place, and emotion, and a key feature of awareness and consciousness Articles summarize our understanding of the mechanisms of episodic memory as well as surveying the neurobiology of epsidodic memory in patients, animal studies and functional imaging work Includes 34 heavily illustrated chapters in two sections by the leading scientists in the field

Author : Eddy J. Davelaar
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814340359

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Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior by Eddy J. Davelaar Pdf

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

Author : William R. Uttal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317392736

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Macroneural Theories in Cognitive Neuroscience by William R. Uttal Pdf

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.

Author : Philip T. Quinlan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135426590

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Connectionist Models of Development by Philip T. Quinlan Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph P. Levy,Dimitrios Bairaktaris,John A. Bullinaria,Paul Cairns
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317744672

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Connectionist Models of Memory and Language (PLE: Memory) by Joseph P. Levy,Dimitrios Bairaktaris,John A. Bullinaria,Paul Cairns Pdf

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.

Author : Jeffrey L. Elman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 026255030X

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Rethinking Innateness by Jeffrey L. Elman Pdf

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.

Author : John P. Spencer,Michael S. C. Thomas,James L. McClelland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015080834768

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Toward a Unified Theory of Development by John P. Spencer,Michael S. C. Thomas,James L. McClelland Pdf

This resource defines and refines two major theoretical approaches within developmental science that address the central issues of development-connectionism and dynamical systems theory.

Author : Dan J. Stein,Jacques Ludik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139429252

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Neural Networks and Psychopathology by Dan J. Stein,Jacques Ludik Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814470056

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Connectionist Models of Behaviour and Cognition II by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814471473

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From Associations to Rules by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Bechtel,Adele Abrahamsen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631207120

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Connectionism and the Mind by William Bechtel,Adele Abrahamsen Pdf

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

Author : William Ramsey,David E. Rumelhart,Stephen P. Stich
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134755097

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Philosophy and Connectionist Theory by William Ramsey,David E. Rumelhart,Stephen P. Stich Pdf

The philosophy of cognitive science has recently become one of the most exciting and fastest growing domains of philosophical inquiry and analysis. Until the early 1980s, nearly all of the models developed treated cognitive processes -- like problem solving, language comprehension, memory, and higher visual processing -- as rule-governed symbol manipulation. However, this situation has changed dramatically over the last half dozen years. In that period there has been an enormous shift of attention toward connectionist models of cognition that are inspired by the network-like architecture of the brain. Because of their unique architecture and style of processing, connectionist systems are generally regarded as radically different from the more traditional symbol manipulation models. This collection was designed to provide philosophers who have been working in the area of cognitive science with a forum for expressing their views on these recent developments. Because the symbol-manipulating paradigm has been so important to the work of contemporary philosophers, many have watched the emergence of connectionism with considerable interest. The contributors take very different stands toward connectionism, but all agree that the potential exists for a radical shift in the way many philosophers think of various aspects of cognition. Exploring this potential and other philosophical dimensions of connectionist research is the aim of this volume.