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   Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives (Chap. 4 "Failures to Learn and Their Remediation: A Hebbian Account" by James L. McClelland) » Read Now

   by James L. McClelland, Robert S. Siegler. 421 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those...

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   This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those that make children ready and able to learn at particular points in development. Behavioral approaches include research on the "microgenesis" of cognitive change over short time periods (e.g., several hour-long sessions) in specific task situations. Research on cognitive change over longer time scales (months and years) is also presented, as well as research that uses computational modeling and dynamical systems approaches to understand learning and development. Neural approaches include the study of how neuronal activity and connectivity change during acquisition of cognitive skills in children and adults. Other investigations consider the possible emergence of cognitive abilities through the maturation of brain structures and the effects of experience on the organization of functions in the brain. Developmental anomalies, such as autism and attention deficit disorder are also examined as windows on normal development. Four questions drive the volume: *Why do cognitive abilities emerge when they do during development? *What are the sources of developmental and individual differences, and of developmental anomalies in learning? *What happens in the brain when people learn? *How can experiences be ordered and timed to optimize learning? The answers to these questions have strong implications for how we educate children and remediate deficits that have impeded the development of thinking abilities. These implications are explored in several chapters in the volume, as well as in the commentaries by leading discussants.

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   Architectures for Intelligence (Chap. 3 "Nature, Nurture, and Connections: Implications of Connectionist Models for Cognitive Development" by James L. McClelland and Eric Jenkins) » Read Now

   by Kurt VanLehn. 442 pgs.

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   Developing Cognitive Competence: New Approaches to Process Modeling (Chap. 4 "A Connectionist Perspective on Knowledge and Development" by J. L. McClelland) » Read Now

   by Graeme S. Halford. 396 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Mechanisms of Language Acquisition (Chap. 7 "Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs: Implicit Rules or Parallel Distributed Processing?" by David E. Rumelhart and James L. McClelland) » Read Now

   by Brian MacWhinney. 476 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Memories, Thoughts, and Emotions: Essays in Honor of George Mandler (Chap. 5 "Learning the Structure of Event Sequences" by Axel Cleeremans and James L. McClelland) » Read Now

   by Fergus Craik, William Kessen, Andrew Ortony. 360 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
   
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   Back Propagation: Theory, Architectures, and Applications (Chap. 9 "Graded State Machines: The Representation of Temporal Contingencies in Feedback Networks" by Axel Cleeremans, David Servan-Schreiber, and James L. McClelland) » Read Now

   by Yves Chauvin, David E. Rumelhart. 564 pgs.

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   Comprehension Processes in Reading (Chap. 11 "Parsing and Comprehension: A Multiple-Constraint View" by Roman Taraban and James L. McClelland) » Read Now

   by D. A. Balota, G. B. Flores D'Arcais, K. Rayner. 660 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library