Albert Nigrin (1994) Gedanken Experiments and Sonnet . Psycoloquy: 5(47) Pattern Recognition (8)
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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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