Richard Cooper (1994) Representation in Modular Networks
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Psycoloquy 5(88): Representation in Modular Networks
REPRESENTATION IN MODULAR NETWORKS
Book review of Miikkulainen on Language-Network
Richard Cooper
Department of Psychology
University College London
London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
r.cooper@psychol.ucl.ac.uk
Abstract
The key feature in the success of DISCERN (1993) is not
its connectionist underpinnings but the modularity inherent in its
design. This modularity leads to the implementation of a version of
Fodor's language of thought hypothesis. The question for
connectionists, then, concerns whether such a language of thought
is inevitable in modular connectionist systems.
Keywords
computational modeling, connectionism, distributed neural
networks, episodic memory, lexicon, natural language processing,
scripts.
References
- Fodor, J. (1983) The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Fodor, J. (1987) Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Fodor, J. and Pylyshyn, Z. (1988) Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture. Cognition, 28, 3-71.
- Marr, D. (1982) Vision. San Francisco: Freeman.
- Miikkulainen, R. (1993) Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated Model of Scripts, Lexicon and Memory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Miikkulainen, R. (1994) Precis of: Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated Model of Scripts, Lexicon and Memory. PSYCOLOQUY 5(46) language-network.1.miikkulainen.
- Shallice, T. (1988) From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.