How do connectionist networks compute?

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-41

  O'Brien, Gerard ^a   Opie, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computation; Connectionism; Representation; Resemblance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 32044454439     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-005-0017-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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