Interpreting the internal structure of a connectionist model of the balance scale task

Brain and Mind

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-149

  Dawson, Michael R W ^a   Zimmerman, Corinne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance scale task; Cognitive informatics; Connectionism; Embodied cognitive science; Synthetic psychology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; ROBOTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0141961893     PISSN: 13891987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025449410732     Document Type: Article

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