Human agents draw a variety of inferences effortlessly, spontaneously, and with remarkable
efficiency–as though these inferences were a reflexive response of their cognitive …

Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines,
including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting …

Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling examines different kinds
of models and investigates some of the basic properties of connectionism in the context of …

Connectionism is a" hands on" introduction to connectionist modeling through practical
exercises in different types of connectionist architectures. explores three different types of …

The matching law (Herrnstein 1961) states that response rates become proportional to
reinforcement rates; this is related to the empirical phenomenon called probability matching …

Human agents draw a variety of inferences effortlessly, spontaneously, and with remarkable
efficiency-as though these inferences were a reflexive response of their cognitive apparatus …

This paper argues that while connectionist technology may be flourishing, connectionist
cognitive science is languishing. Parallel distributed processing (PDP) networks can be …

This paper examines whether a classical model could be translated into a PDP network
using a standard connectionist training technique called extra output learning. In Study 1 …

Human agents draw a variety of inferences effortlessly, spontaneously, and with remarkable
efficiency-as though these inferences were a reflexive response of their cognitive apparatus …

If artificial neural networks are ever to form the foundation for higher level cognitive
behaviors in machines or to realize their full potential as explanatory devices for human …