9/28/2011

Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism) Review

Exercises in Rethinking Innateness: A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations (Neural Network Modeling and Connectionism)
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Here's a self-contained introduction to connectionist modeling. Easy to read and straight-forward, this text provides software and excercises aimed at stepping a novice through the basics of connectionism. Designed to accompany Rethinking Innateness (1996), these examples provide a glimpse into the world of cognitive modeling. The examples can, at times, be frustrating and the text is in need of more debugging hints; yet, the simulations are rewarding and thought-provoking. While those already familiar with connectionism will find the excercises too basic, those curious about connectionism will find the book a great place to start and one that doesn't bog the reader down with technical jargon. It is accessible, enjoyable, and written by two key players in connectionism: Kim Plunkett and Jeff Elman. Well worth reading, but only if the reader is willing to work through the basic simulations and answer the excercises along the way.

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This book is the companion volume to Rethinking Innateness: AConnectionist Perspective on Development (The MIT Press, 1996), which proposed a newtheoretical framework to answer the question "What does it mean to say that abehavior is innate?" The new work provides concrete illustrations--in the form ofcomputer simulations--of properties of connectionist models that are particularlyrelevant to cognitive development. This enables the reader to pursue in depth someof the practical and empirical issues raised in the first book. The authors' largergoal is to demonstrate the usefulness of neural network modeling as a researchmethodology.The book comes with a complete software package, including demonstrationprojects, for running neural network simulations on both Macintosh and Windows 95.It also contains a series of exercises in the use of the neural network simulatorprovided with the book. The software is also available to run on a variety of UNIXplatforms.

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