Connectionism and developmental psychology

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-80

  Plunkett, Kim ^c   Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^a   Bates, Elizabeth ^b   Elman, Jeffrey L ^b   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Innatenes; Language acquisition; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031018977     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01505.x     Document Type: Review

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