A computational account of connectionist networks

Recent Patents on Computer Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-27

  Fresco, Nir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analogue computation; Cognitive science; Connectionism; Digital computation; Implementation; Neural networks; Representations

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF MIND; CONNECTION WEIGHTS; CONNECTIONISM; CONNECTIONIST NETWORKS; DIGITAL COMPUTATION; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION; TARGET DOMAIN; THEORY OF COMPUTATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 78651579781     PISSN: 18744796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874479611003010020     Document Type: Article

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