Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

by Timothy T. Rogers and James L. McClelland

Book Overview

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses of hierarchical, categorization-based approaches, similarity-based approaches, and the approach often called "theory theory." Building on earlier models by Geoffrey Hinton in the 1980s and David Rumelhart in the early 1990s, the authors propose that performance in semantic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262681579
• ISBN13: 9780262681575
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher