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Neural Connections, Mental Computation

Name: Neural Connections, Mental Computation
Author: Nadel
ISBN: 9780262140423

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Neural Connections, Mental Computation addresses the key questions of whether connectionist models are computationally sufficient to account for complex cognitive functions and whether connectionism can account for such functions in a neurobiologically realistic way.

Lynn Nadel is Professor of Psychology and Research Cognitive Scientist at the University of Arizona. Lynn Cooper is Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Peter Culicover is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. Michael Harnish is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

About the Author, Nadel

Lynn Nadel is Regents' Professor in the Cognition and Neural Systems Program, Department of Psychology, at the University of Arizona.

Robert M. Harnish is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.

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Papers from a conference of the same name, Tucson, February 1986, though many have since been updated. Researchers in philosophy, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience discuss connectionism as a plausible alternative to traditional symbolic or sentence-logic models of cognitive function. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)