Table of Contents

Introduction 1: The basics of connectionist information processing 2: The appeal of parallel distributed processing for modelling cognition 3: Pattern association 4: Auto association 5: Training a multi-layer network with an error signal: hidden units and backpropagation 6: Competitive networks 7: Recurrent networks 8: Reading aloud 9: Language acquisition 10: Connectionism and cognitive development 11: Connectionist neuropsychology - lesioning neural networks 12: Mental representation: Rules, symbols, and connectionist networks 13: Network models of brain function 14: Evolutionary connectionism 15: A selective history of connectionism before 1986 Appendices 1-4 References

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"...a very useful text, and, for those of us who have struggled to teach connectionism to psychology undergraduates, it is something of a godsend" Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53B,Feb 2000