Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
Language: English
Published by A Bradford Book / The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London, 1999
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447pp., xviii. First MIT Press paperback printing, 1998; this copy stated: "Fourth printing, 1999". References, pp. 397-441; Subject Index, pp. 443-447. Trade paperback looks little to not at all used, as it would be on your favorite Independent bookstore shelf. NO previous owner names.
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- Title
- Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
- Author
- Elman, Jeffrey L., Elizabeth A. Bates, Mark H. Johnson, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Domenico Parisi and Kim Plunkett
- Publisher
- A Bradford Book / The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 026255030X
- ISBN 13
- 9780262550307
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way.
One of the key contributions of Rethinking Innateness is a taxonomy of ways in which a behavior can be innate. These include constraints at the level of representation, architecture, and timing; typically, behaviors arise through the interaction of constraints at several of these levels.The ideas are explored through dynamic models inspired by a new kind of "developmental connectionism," a marriage of connectionist models and developmental neurobiology, forming a new theoretical framework for the study of behavioral development. While relying heavily on the conceptual and computational tools provided by connectionism, Rethinking Innateness also identifies ways in which these tools need to be enriched by closer attention to biology.
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