[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the predictive properties of Berg Balance Scale and Fullerton Advanced Balance Scales, in a group of independently-functioning community dwelling older adults. [Subjects and Methods] Ninety-seven community-dwelling older adults (male=39, female=58) who were capable of walking independently on assessment were included in this stu...

Decreasing the number of training presentations in all models caused slower convergence, as did increasing training bias. The precise effects of segregating hidden units depended on the method of weight updating, but the general principle was that psychological realism followed slow convergence. One ramification of the current findings is that models, like humans, need not have access to all of...

Our ability to detect patterns and observe regularities is a fundamental part of reasoning and learning. Various theoretical accounts conceptualize induction in different ways. In the current study, we used the balance-scale task and mouse-tracking techniques as a means to explore the cognitive dynamics that underlie inductive pattern recognition. Although we did not replicate an expected inter...

The success of a connectionist model of cognitive development on the balance scale task is due to manipulations which impede convergence of the backpropagation learning algorithm. The model was trained at different levels of a biased training environment with exposure to a varied number of training instances. The effects of weight updating method and modifying the network topology were also exa...