MODULARITY: WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED?
Book Review of Murre on Categorization

Abstract

A central strength of the book is its detailed development and application of a single class of models. The book is recommended to a wide audience interested in how a particular neural network model is developed and then applied to a broad range of problems. Modular networks with locally distributed features, such as those present in CALM and other similar models, undoubtedly have important properties that are pertinent to biological and computational learning. Their relevance to psychology is being established. Ongoing investigations will hopefully provide more insight into how these interesting models may help us better understand brain processes and behavior.

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