Steven Sloman (1993) Modularity of Mind: a Question Unasked
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Psycoloquy 4(29): Modularity of Mind: a Question Unasked
MODULARITY OF MIND: A QUESTION UNASKED
Book Review of Murre on Categorization
Steven Sloman
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Brown University, Box 1978
Providence, RI 02912
sloman@columbo.cog.brown.edu
Abstract
Connectionist models can make substantive contributions
to our understanding of the mind in a variety of ways. Murre (1992)
provides no evidence that his model makes any of them. He and his
colleagues have clearly been busy, but the book is a report of
work-in-progress that is lacking in completeness and polish.
Keywords
Neural networks, neurobiology, psychology engineering,
CALM, Categorizing And Learning Module, neurocomputers,
catastrophic interference, genetic algorithms.
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