A Computational Cognitive Model of Syntactic Priming

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 587-637

  Reitter, David ^a   Keller, Frank ^a   Moore, Johanna D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACT R; Adaptation; Categorial grammar; Cognitive architectures; Incrementality; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; RECALL; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHMS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79955885169     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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