Challenging the widespread assumption that connectionism and distributed representations go hand-in-hand

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 413-445

  Bowers, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; REVIEW;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING; READING;

EID: 0036834032     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0285(02)00506-6     Document Type: Article

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