Dynamic and Connectionist Approaches to Development: Toward a Future of Mutually Beneficial Coevolution

Toward a Unified Theory of Development Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Consider

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Thomas, Michael S C ^a   McClelland, James L ^b   Richardson, Fiona M ^a   Schapiro, Anna C ^b   Baughman, Frank D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; Connectionism; Dynamic systems theory; Good old fashioned cognitive development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921557806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300598.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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