CONNECTIONISM AND THE MIND by William Bechtel, Adele A. Abrahamsen ( 9780631207122 )

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CONNECTIONISM AND THE MIND
PARALLEL PROCESSING, DYNAMICS AND EVOLUTION IN NETWORKS

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William Bechtel, Adele A. Abrahamsen

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0631207120

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JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

8 November, 2001

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Pages:

424

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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.

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Connectionism and the Mind provides a clear and balanced introduction to connectionist networks and explores their theoretical and philosophical implications. As in the first edition, the first few chapters focus on network architecture and offer an accessible treatment of the equations that govern learning and the propagation of activation, including a glossary for reference. The reader is walked step-by-step through such tasks as memory retrieval and prototype formation. The middle chapters pursue the implications of connectionism's focus on pattern recognition and completion as fundamental to cognition. Some proponents of connectionism have emphasized these functions to the point of rejecting any role for linguistically structured representations and rules, resulting in heated debates with advocates of symbol processing accounts of cognition. The coverage of this controversy has been updated and augmented by a new chapter on modular networks. Finally, three new chapters discuss the relation of connectionism to three emerging research programs: dynamical systems theory, artificial life, and cognitive neuroscience.

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