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Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

Rogers, Timothy T.
McClelland, James L.

Paperback

Series: Bradford Book

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262681579
ISBN13: 9780262681575
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 20 2006
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.62 Depth: 8.72
Language: English

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses of hierarchical, categorization-based approaches, similarity-based approaches, and the approach often called theory theory. Building on earlier models by Geoffrey Hinton in the 1980s and David Rumelhart in the early 1990s, the authors propose that performance in semantic tasks arises through the propagation of graded signals in a system of interconnected processing units. The representations used in performing these tasks are patterns of activation across units, governed by weighted connections among them. Semantic knowledge is acquired through the gradual adjustment of the strengths of these connections in the course of day-to-day experience.

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