How do simple connectionist networks achieve a shift from " featural" to "correlational" processing in categorization?

Infancy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-207

  Thomas, Michael S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT;

EID: 13844314166     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0502_5     Document Type: Article

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