*Well, that's quite interesting, although I've got a couple of problems with it. *First, why allege that "probabilistic and connectionist approaches" are any closer to human cognitive activity than ...

Word recognition plays an essential role in learning to read, skilled reading, and dyslexia. The goal of the research I describe is to develop a theory of word recognition that is realized as a ...

In this article we present some of the fundamental principles of a research program—the Sub-Symbolic Paradigm (SSP)—based on a particular approach to unifying connectionist and symbolic computation.

The concept of "reinforcement" has a long history in psychology. Pavlov used the term reinforcement to explain the strengthening of the association between the sound of a bell and the production of ...