Parallel Distributed Processing, Volume 1 : Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Foundations - David E. Rumelhart

Parallel Distributed Processing, Volume 1

Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Foundations

By: David E. Rumelhart

Paperback | 29 July 1987

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $130.00

$81.50

37%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $20.38 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 25 to 30 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition called connectionism that is challenging the idea of symbolic computation that has traditionally been at the center of debate in theoretical discussions about the mind. The authors' theory assumes the mind is composed of a great number of elementary units connected in a neural network. Mental processes are interactions between these units which excite and inhibit each other in parallel rather than sequential operations. In this context, knowledge can no longer be thought of as stored in localized structures; instead, it consists of the connections between pairs of units that are distributed throughout the network. Volume 1 lays the foundations of this exciting theory of parallel distributed processing, while Volume 2 applies it to a number of specific issues in cognitive science and neuroscience, with chapters describing models of aspects of perception, memory, language, and thought. "A Bradford Book."
Industry Reviews
The most intense, most effective and most mind-stretching view of neurocomputing origins, theories and concerns to yet reach print. * Intelligence *

More in Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Make It Stick : The Science of Successful Learning - Peter C. Brown
Playing Possum : How Animals Understand Death - Susana Mons

RRP $49.99

$40.50

19%
OFF
Reading in the Brain : The New Science of How We Read - Stanislas Dehaene
Space, Time, and Memory - Lynn Nadel

$364.95

Technics and Enaction : A Philosophy of Imagination - Émilien Dereclenne

RRP $170.00

$125.75

26%
OFF