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Connectionism is a "hands on" introduction to connectionist modeling through practical exercises in different types of connectionist architectures.
- explores three different types of connectionist architectures - distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron
- provides a brief overview of each architecture, a detailed introduction on how to use a program to explore this network, and a series of practical exercises that are designed to highlight the advantages, and disadvantages, of each
- accompanied by a website at https: //www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/ mike/Book3/ that includes practice exercises and software, as well as the files and blank exercise sheets required for performing the exercises
- designed to be used as a stand-alone volume or alongside Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling (by Michael R.W. Dawson, Blackwell 2004)
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CONNNECTIONISM is a "hands on" introduction to connectionist modeling. Three different types of connectionist architectures - distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron - are explored. In an accessible style, Dawson provides a brief overview of each architecture, a detailed introduction on how to use a program to explore this network, and a series of practical exercises that are designed to highlight the advantages, and disadvantages, of each and to provide a "road map" to the field of cognitive modeling.
This book is designed to be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling (Blackwell Publishing, 2004). An accompanying website is available at www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/%7emike/book3/index.html and includes practice exercises and software, as well as the files and blank exercise sheets that are required for performing the exercises.
Review Quotes
1. “This is a first-rate textbook, Enabling readers to perform simulations described, it provides a very user-friendly introduction to the essential material, which it sets in an engaging, historically informed context.” "Anne Jaap Jacobson, University of Houston""
2. "This is a first-rate textbook, Enabling readers to perform simulations described, it provides a very user-friendly introduction to the essential material, which it sets in an engaging, historically informed context." Anne Jaap Jacobson, University of Houston
