edited by Robert M French (French National Center for Scientific Research & University of Burgundy, France) & Elizabeth Thomas (University of Burgundy, France)

Table of Contents (107k)
Introduction (96k)
Chapter 1: A Connectionist Approach to Modelling the Flexible Control of Routine Activities (654k)

This book introduces a host of connectionist models of cognition and behavior. The major areas covered are high-level cognition, language, categorization and visual perception, and sensory and attentional processing. All of the articles cover unpublished research work. The key contribution of this book is that it focuses exclusively on the advances in connectionist modeling in psychology. The papers are relatively short, and were explicitly written to be accessible to both connectionist modelers and experimental psychologists.

• High-Level Cognition:
  • A Connectionist Approach to Modelling the Flexible Control of Routine Activities (N Ruh et al.)
  • Associative and Connectionist Accounts of Biased Contingency Detection in Humans (S C Musca et al.)
  • On the Origin of False Memories: At Encoding or at Retrieval? — A Contextual Retrieval Analysis (E J Davelaar)
  • Another Reason Why We Should Look After Our Children (J A Bullinaria)
• Language:
  • A Multimodal Model of Early Child Language Acquisition (A Nyamapfene)
  • Constraints on Generalisation in a Self-Organising Model of Early Word Learning (J Mayor & K Plunkett)
  • Self-Organizing Word Representations for Fast Sentence Processing (S L Frank)
  • Grain-Size Effects in Reading: Insights from Connectionist Models of Impaired Reading (G Pagliuca & P Monaghan)
  • Using Distributional Methods to Explore the Systematicity between Form and Meaning in British Sign Language (J P Levy & N Thompson)
• Categorization and Visual Perception:
  • Transient Attentional Enhancement During the Attentional Blink: EEG Correlates of the ST²Model (S Chennu et al.)
  • A Dual-Memory Model of Categorization in Infancy (G Westermann & D Mareschal)
  • A Dual-Layer Model of High-Level Perception (J W Han et al.)
• Sensory and Attentional Processing:
  • Processing Symbolic Sequences Using Echo-State Networks (M ??erℑanskϖ & P Tiℑo)
  • Neural Models of Head-Direction Cells (P Zeidman & J A Bullinaria)
  • Recurrent Self-Organization of Sensory Signals in the Auditory Domain (C Delbé)
  • Reconstruction of Spatial and Chromatic Information from the Cone Mosaic (D Alleysson et al.)
  • The Connectivity and Performance of Small-World and Modular Associative Memory Models (W-L Chen et al.)
  • Connectionist Hypothesis About an Ontogenetic Development of Conceptually Driven Cortical Anisotropy (M Mermillod et al.)