Cognition: Parallel distributed processing

Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

In our recent book, we present a parallel distributed processing theory of the acquisition, representation and use of human semantic knowledge. The theory proposes that semantic abilities arise from the flow of activation amongst simple, neuron-like processing units, as governed by the strengths of interconnecting weights; and that acquisition of new semantic information involves the gradual ad...

Parallel distributed processing : implications for cognition and development

Précis of Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

In this précis of our recent book, Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach (Rogers & McClelland 2004), we present a parallel distributed processing theory of the acquisition, representation, and use of human semantic knowledge. The theory proposes that semantic abilities arise from the flow of activation among simple, neuron-like processing units, as governed by the stren...

Semantic cognition 1 Running head: SEMANTIC COGNITION Précis of Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

In this précis of our recent book, we present a parallel distributed processing theory of the acquisition, representation and use of human semantic knowledge. The theory proposes that semantic abilities arise from the flow of activation amongst simple, neuron-like processing units, as governed by the strengths of interconnecting weights; and that acquisition of new semantic information involves...

Mathematical Cognition 1 A Parallel - Distributed Processing Approach to Mathematical Cognition

How should we think about the nature of our knowledge of mathematical concepts, and the mechanisms we use to learn and use these concepts when we do mathematics? Here we describe a perspective on the answers to these questions and a future research program to address them that is grounded, in part, in the parallel distributed processing [PDP] approach to cognition and learning [1,2] implemented...