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Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1349-6
Paperback
296 pages
October 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Introduces connectionist models as tools that are both synthetic and representational and which can be used as the basis for conducting synthetic psychology.

  • Includes distinctively varied account of modeling, historical overview of the synthetic approach, and unique perspectives on connectionism.

  • Investigates basic properties of connectionism in the context of synthetic psychology, including detailed accounts of how the internal structure can be interpreted.

  • Provides supplementary material online at www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Book2/ which includes free software for conducting connectionist simulations and instructions for building simple robots.
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