Connectionist Models of Learning, Development and Evolution: Proceedings of the Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Liège, Belgium, 16–18 September 2000: Perspectives in Neural Computing

SECTION I: Neural Basis of Cognition.- 1. Applying Neuroanatomical Distinctions to Connectionist Cognitive Modelling.- 2. Pseudopatterns and Dual-Network Memory Models: Advantages and Shortcomings.- 3. A Learning Algorithm for Synfue Chains.- 4. Towards a Spatio-Temporal Analysis Tool for fMRI Data: An Application to Depth-from-Motion Processing in Humans.- 5. A Simple Model Exhtbiting Scalar Timing.- 6. Modularity and Specialized Learning in the Organization of Behaviour.- 7. Modeling Modulatory Aspects in Association Processes.- 8. Recognition of Novelty Made Easy: Constraints of Channel Capacity on Generative Networks.- 9. A Biologically Plausible Maturation of an ART Network.- SECTION II: Development and Category Learning.- 10. Developing Knowledge about Living Things: A Connectionist Investigation.- 11. Paying Attention to Relevant Dimensions: A Localist Approach.- 12. Coordinating Multiple Sensory Modalities While Learning to Reach.- 13. Modelling Cognitive Development with Constructivist Neural Networks.- 14. Learning Action Affordances and Action Schemas.- 15. A Three-Layer Configural Cue Model ofCategory Learning Rates.- 16. A Revival of Turing’s Forgotten Connectionist Ideas: Exploring Unorganized Machines.- 17. Visual Crowding and Category-Specific Deficits: A Neural Network Model.- SECTION III: Implicit Learning.- 18.Implicit Learning of Regularities in Western Tonal Music by Self-Organization.- 19. Rules vs. Statistics in Implicit Learning of Biconditional Grammars.- 20. Hidden Markov Model Interpretations of Neural Networks.- SECTION IV: Models of Social Cognition.- 21. A Connectionist Model of Person Perception and Stereotype Formation.- 22. Learning about an Absent Cause: Discounting and Augmentation of Positively and Independently Related Causes.-SECTION V: Evolution.- 23. Exploring the Baldwin Effect in Evolving Adaptable Control Systems.- 24. Borrowing Dynamies from Evolution: Association using Catalytie Network Models.- 25. Evolving Modular Architectures for Neural Networks.- 26. Evolution, Development and Learning - A Nested Hierarchy?.- SECTION VI: Semantics.- 27. Learning Lexical Properties from Word Usage Patterns: Which Context Words Should be Used?.- 28. Associative Computation and Associative Prediction.- 29. The Development of Small-World Semantie Networks.- 30. What is the Dimensionality of Human Semantie Space?.- Author Index.

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