Albert Nigrin (1994) Gedanken Experiments and Sonnet
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Psycoloquy 5(47): Gedanken Experiments and Sonnet
GEDANKEN EXPERIMENTS AND SONNET
Reply to Pickering on Pattern Recognition
Albert Nigrin
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
The American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC USA 20016-8116
(202) 885-3145
nigrin@american.edu
Abstract
This is a response to some of the concerns raised by
Pickering (1994) in his review of "Neural Networks for Pattern
Recognition" (Nigrin, 1993). Topics discussed include: (1) the use
of gedanken experiments; (2) reinforcement learning; and (3) the
attentional reset mechanism.
Keywords
adaptive resonance theory, gedanken experiments, neural
networks, unsupervised learning
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