Authors: Timothy T. Rogers, James L. McClelland
ISBN-13: 9780262182393, ISBN-10: 0262182394
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Timothy T. Rogers is a research scientist at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England.
James L. McClelland is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of Parallel Distributed Processing (1986) and Semantic Cognition (2004), both published by the MIT Press.
A mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge that uses distributed connectionist networks as a starting point for a psychological theory of semantic cognition.
1 | Categories, hierarchies, and theories | 1 |
2 | A PDP theory of semantic cognition | 49 |
3 | Latent hierarchies in distributed representations | 83 |
4 | Emergence of category structure in infancy | 121 |
5 | Naming things : privileged categories, familiarity, typicality, and expertise | 175 |
6 | Category coherence | 231 |
7 | Inductive projection and conceptual reorganization | 265 |
8 | The role of causal knowledge in semantic task performance | 297 |
9 | Core principles, general issues, and future directions | 347 |
App. A | Simulation details | 381 |
App. B | Training patterns | 393 |
App. C | Individuating specific items in the input | 399 |