Re-thinking stages of cognitive development: An appraisal of connectionist models of the balance scale task

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-459

  Quinlan, Philip T ^a   van der Maas, Han L J ^b   Jansen, Brenda R J ^b   Booij, Olaf ^b   Rendell, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balance scale task; Connectionist models; Latent class analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

COGNITION; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SEMANTICS;

EID: 34047135509     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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