A connectionist model of a continuous developmental transition in the balance scale task

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 395-411

  Schapiro, Anna C ^a   McClelland, James L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance scale task; Connectionist models; Development; Stage transitions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANCE SCALE TASK; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; JUMPING; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 59649088307     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.017     Document Type: Article

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