Parallel Distributed Processing
Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Psychological and Biological Models
$87.63
- Paperback
632 pages
- Release Date
29 July 1987
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262631105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262631105 |
| Author: | David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, The PDP Research Group |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 632 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 1987 |
| Weight: | 816g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Parallel Distributed Processing |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
Critics Review
The most intense, most effective and most mind-stretching view of neurocomputing origins, theories and concerns to yet reach print.
The most intense, most effective and most mind-stretching view of neurocomputing origins, theories and concerns to yet reach print. * Intelligence *
David E. Rumelhart
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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