Transitive choices by a simple, fully connected, backpropagation neural network: Implications for the comparative study of transitive inference

Animal Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-68

  de Lillo, C ^a   Floreano, D ^b   Antinucci, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognition; Five term series task; Neural networks; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010792514     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100092     Document Type: Article

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