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James L. McClelland (Professor, Stanford University) David E. Rumelhart

Parallel Distributed Processing

Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Psychological and Biological Models

James L. McClelland (Professor, Stanford University), David E. Rumelhart, PDP Research Group

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MIT Press
29 July 1987

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Computer science

What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition called connectionism that is challenging the idea of symbolic computation that has traditionally been at the center of debate in theoretical discussions about the mind. The authors' theory assumes the mind is composed of a great number of elementary units connected in a neural network. Mental processes are interactions between these units which excite and inhibit each other in parallel rather than sequential operations. In this context, knowledge can no longer be thought of as stored in localized structures; instead, it consists of the connections between pairs of units that are distributed throughout the network.

Volume 1 lays the foundations of this exciting theory of parallel distributed processing, while Volume 2 applies it to a number of specific issues in cognitive science and neuroscience, with chapters describing models of aspects of perception, memory, language, and thought.

By: James L. McClelland (Professor Stanford University), David E. Rumelhart, PDP Research Group
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9780262631105
ISBN 10: 0262631105
Pages: 632
Publication Date: 29 July 1987
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. With David E. Rumelhart, he was awarded the 2002 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for his work in the field of cognitive neuroscience on a cognitive framework called parallel distributed processing and the concept of connectionism. David E. Rumelhart (1942-2011) served as Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University. With James McClelland, he was awarded the 2002 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for his work in the field of cognitive neuroscience on a cognitive framework called parallel distributed processing and the concept of connectionism.

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The most intense, most effective and most mind-stretching view of neurocomputing origins, theories and concerns to yet reach print. Intelligence

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Parallel Distributed Processing

Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Psychological and Biological Models

James L. McClelland (Professor, Stanford University), David E. Rumelhart, PDP Research Group

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