Parallel Distributed Processing Vol. 2: Psychological and Biological Models Pre-Owned Paperback 0262631105 9780262631105 James L. McClelland David E. Rumelhart PDP Research Group

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This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition. Format: Paperback Author: James L. McClelland David E. Rumelhart PDP Research Group ISBN10: 0262631105 ISBN13: 9780262631105 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. David E. Rumelhart is Professor of Psychology at the University of California San Diego. James L. McClelland is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University. A Bradford Book.