Introduction to connectionist Modelling of Cognitive Processes

Part One : Principles. The basis of connectionnist information processing - The attraction of parallel distributed processing for modelling cognition - Pattern association - Autoassociation - Training a multi-layer network with an error signal: hidden units and backpropagation - Competitive networks Part Two : Applications. Reading aloud - Language acquisition - Connectionism and cognitive development - Connectionist neuropsychology-lesioning networks - Mental representation: rules, symbols and connectionist networks - Network models of brain function - Evolutionary connectionisme - A selective history of cnnectionism befor 1986. Appendix 1: Installation procedures for TLEARN - Appendix 2: An introduction to linear algebra for neural networks. (Plus une disquette).