Michael R. W. Dawson

Minds and Machines

Connectionism and Psychological Modeling

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Models are important tools in psychology used to generate predictions to test the validity of theories. Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling examines three different kinds of models (models of data, mathematical models, and computer simulations) and discusses a synthetic approach to modeling. Connectionist models are introduced as tools that are both synthetic and representational and that can be used as the basis for conducting synthetic psychology. The book investigates some of the basic properties of connectionism in the context of synthetic psychology, including detailed accounts of how the internal structure of co… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-470-75298-2
EAN: 9780470752982
Produktnummer: 13819741
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'033 KB

Über den Autor

Michael R. W. Dawson is a member of the Department of Psychology and the Biological Computation Project at the University of Alberta, Canada. His primary research interests concern the foundations of cognitive science, learning and representation in connectionist networks, and computational models of motion perception. He is the author of Understanding Cognitive Science (Blackwell Publishers, 1998).