Information and Meaning: Use-Based Models in Arrays of Neural Nets

Minds and Machines

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-66

  Grim, Patrick ^a   St Denis, Paul ^a   Kokalis, Trina ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMMUNICATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SEMANTICS;

BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS; SEMANTIC ASPECTS; SYNTACTIC CODING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0942299113     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MIND.0000005135.23580.9a     Document Type: Article

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