Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach
- ISBN-10
- 0262182394
- ISBN-13
- 9780262182393
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 425
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Authors
- James L. McClelland, Timothy T. Rogers
Description
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.
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