Exercises in Rethinking Innateness

A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations

Kim Plunkett (Oxford Univ), Jeffrey Elman (University of California, San Diego)

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MIT Press
15 April 1997

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Neural networks & fuzzy systems

Series: Exercises in Rethinking Innateness

This book is the companion volume to Rethinking Innateness- A Connectionist Perspective on Development (The MIT Press, 1996), which proposed a new theoretical framework to answer the question ""What does it mean to say that a behavior is innate?"" The new work provides concrete illustrations-in the form of computer simulations-of properties of connectionist models that are particularly relevant to cognitive development. This enables the reader to pursue in depth some of the practical and empirical issues raised in the first book. The authors' larger goal is to demonstrate the usefulness of neural network modeling as a research methodology.

The book comes with a complete software package, including demonstration projects, for running neural network simulations on both Macintosh and Windows 95. It also contains a series of exercises in the use of the neural network simulator provided with the book. The software is also available to run on a variety of UNIX platforms.

By: Kim Plunkett (Oxford Univ), Jeffrey Elman (University of California, San Diego)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780262661058
ISBN 10: 0262661055
Series: Exercises in Rethinking Innateness
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 April 1997
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: Inactive

The methodology of simulations; learning to use the simulator; learning internal representations; autoassociation; generalization; translation invariance; simple recurrent networks; critical points in learning; modeling stages in cognitive development; learning the English past tense; the importance of starting small.

Robert Hanna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Kant and the Foundations of Analytical Philosophy.